Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus and communication method

ABSTRACT

MS receives a radio resource control signal including first information used for indicating an uplink component carrier (UCC), UCC being used for transmitting channel state information (CSI) on PUCCH. MS receives second information on PDCCH in a first downlink component carrier (DCC), second information being used for scheduling of a PUSCH in the UCC, the first DCC being one of the plurality of DCCs and corresponding to the UCC. MS transmits CSI on PUCCH in the first UCC, the CSI being for a second DCC, the second DCC being one of the plurality of DCCs. MS transmits uplink data and CSI on PUSCH in the UCC in a case that the PUSCH in the UCC is scheduled by using second information. MS receives ACK/NACK for transmission on PUSCH, ACK/NACK being received on a physical HARQ indicator channel in a same DCC as the first DCC in which second information is received.

This application is a Continuation of co-pending application Ser. No.14/308,275, filed on Jun. 18, 2014, which is a Continuation ofapplication Ser. No. 13/062,016 filed on Apr. 26, 2011 (now U.S. Pat.No. 8,797,977, issued on Aug. 5, 2014), which is the national phaseunder 35 U.S.C. §371 of International Application No. PCT/JP2009/065447filed on Sep. 3, 2009, which claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(a)to Patent Application No. 2008-227567 filed in Japan on Sep. 4, 2008.The entire contents of each of the above-identified applications arehereby incorporated by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a mobile communication system composedof a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus.

BACKGROUND ART

3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) is a project to discuss/createspecifications of a mobile communication system based on networks ofevolved W-CDMA (Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access) and GSM (GlobalSystem for Mobile Communications). In 3GPP, the W-CDMA system has beenstandardized as the third generation cellular mobile communicationsystem and its services have been launched sequentially. Further, HSDPA(High-speed Downlink Packet Access) with the communication speed furtherincreased has also been standardized and its services are launched. In3GPP, the evolution of the third generation radio access technology(hereinafter, referred to as “LTE (Long Term Evolution)” or “SUTRA(Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)”) and a mobilecommunication system (hereinafter, referred to as “LTE-A (Long TermEvolution-Advanced” or “Advanced-EUTRA”) that utilizes a wider systembandwidth to achieve faster data transmission and reception arediscussed.

As a communication system in LTE, an OFDMA (Orthogonal FrequencyDivision Multiple Access) system and a SC-FDMA (Single Carrier-FrequencyDivision Multiple Access) system that use subcarriers orthogonal to eachother to perform user multiplexing are discussed. Meanwhile, in adownlink, the OFDMA system, which is a multi-carrier communicationsystem, is proposed; in an uplink, the SC-FDMA system, which is asingle-carrier communication system, is proposed.

On the other hand, it is proposed that, as a communication system inLTE-A, in a downlink, the OFDMA system be introduced, and, in an uplink,in addition to the SC-FDMA system, which is a single-carriercommunication system, the OFDMA system, which is a multi-carriercommunication system, and a Clustered-SC-FDMA (Clustered-SingleCarrier-Frequency Domain Multiple Access, also called DFT-S-OFDM withSpectrum Division Control) system be introduced (non-patent documents 1and 2). The SC-FDMA system examined as an uplink communication system inLTE or LTE-A has the feature of lowering a PAPR (Peak to Average PowerRatio) when transmitting data.

It is also proposed that although a frequency band used in a generalmobile communication system is continuous, in LTE-A, multiplecontinuous/non-continuous frequency bands (hereinafter, referred to as a“carrier component” or “component carrier”) be used in a compositemanner and utilized (spectrum aggregation or carrier aggregation) as onewider frequency band (wider system band). Moreover, it is proposed that,in order to use more flexibly a frequency band assigned to a mobilecommunication system, a frequency band used in downlink communicationand a frequency band used in uplink communication have differentfrequency bandwidths (non-patent documents 3 and 4).

-   Non-patent document 1: “UL Access Scheme for LTE-Advanced”, 3GPP TSG    RAN WG1 Meeting #53-bis, R1-082365, Jun. 30-Jul. 4, 2008.-   Non-patent document 2: “Consideration on Multicarrier Transmission    scheme for LTE Adv uplink”, 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 Meeting #53-bis,    R1-082398, Jun. 30-Jul. 4, 2008.-   Non-patent document 3: “Proposals for LTE-Advanced Technologies”,    3GPP TSG RAN WG1 Meeting #53-bis, R1-082575, Jun. 30-Jul. 4, 2008.-   Non-patent document 4: “Carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced”, 3GPP    TSG RAN WG1 Meeting #53-bis, R1-082468, Jun. 30-Jul. 4, 2008.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION

However, in a conventional technology, when using a wider systembandwidth (for example, a system bandwidth having a bandwidth of 100MHz) consists of multiple continuous/non-continuous frequency bands(carrier components) to perform communication between the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus, correspondence between afrequency band used in downlink communication and a frequency band usedin uplink communication is not clarified. Hence, when the mobile stationapparatus uses the uplink frequency band to transmit informationaccording to information transmitted by the base station apparatus usingthe downlink frequency band, it is necessary to control, by the basestation apparatus, how the mobile station apparatus transmits theinformation using the uplink frequency band. In other words, the basestation apparatus disadvantageously needs to transmit controlinformation (control signal) to the mobile station apparatus.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing how the base station apparatus and themobile station apparatus use frequency bands each having a bandwidth of100 MHz for uplink and downlink communication to perform communication.FIG. 11 also shows that the uplink frequency bands and downlinkfrequency bands each are composed of five frequency bands (carriercomponents) having a bandwidth of 20 MHz. For ease of description, thefive carrier components (20 MHz) constituting the frequency band (100MHz) used in the downlink communication are denoted as DL-1, DL-2, DL-3,DL-4 and DL-5, respectively. The carrier components (20 MHz)constituting the frequency band (100 MHz) used in the uplinkcommunication are denoted as UL-1, UL-2, UL-3, UL-4 and UL-5,respectively.

In the conventional technology, the base station apparatus and themobile station apparatus use the uplink frequency band (100 MHz) and thedownlink frequency band (100 MHz) consists of five carrier componentseach having a bandwidth of 20 MHz to perform communication. Here, themobile station apparatus cannot find which one of the carrier components(any one of UL-1, UL-2, UL-3, UL-4 and UL-5) is used to transmit uplinkinformation corresponding to information transmitted by the base stationapparatus using DL-1. For example, when the base station apparatustransmits information using DL-1, the mobile station apparatus can notfind which one of the carrier components is used to transmit theACK/NACK for this information.

In other words, in the conventional technology, it is necessary toinstruct the mobile station apparatus, with the control information(control signal) from the base station apparatus, to transmitinformation using which one of the carrier components in the uplink, inresponse to information transmitted in the downlink. For example, thebase station apparatus needs to instruct the mobile station apparatus,with the control information (control signal), to transmit the ACK/NACKfor the information transmitted with DL-1, using which one of thecarrier components, namely, UL-1, UL-2, UL-3, UL-4 and UL-5.

This control information (control signal) from the base stationapparatus to the mobile station apparatus is increased as the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate with eachother using a wider frequency band and the number of carrier components(the number of carrier components aggregated) constituting the widerfrequency band is increased. When a wider frequency band is used toachieve fast transmission and reception of information between the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus, the number ofcarrier components constituting the wider frequency band is increased.Accordingly, the control information (control signal) from the basestation apparatus to the mobile station apparatus is increased.

This control information (control signal) from the base stationapparatus to the mobile station apparatus is produced even when thewider frequency band is constituted of multiple non-continuous frequencybands (carrier components). Even when the wider frequency band isconstituted of multiple non-continuous frequency bands (carriercomponents) so as to achieve fast transmission and reception ofinformation, the control information (control signal) from the basestation apparatus to the mobile station apparatus is increased accordingto the number of carrier components.

Furthermore, this control information (control signal) is produced evenwhen the bandwidths of a downlink frequency band and the bandwidths ofan uplink frequency band used when the base station apparatus and themobile station apparatus communicate with each other are different fromeach other. For example, even when the base station apparatus uses a 100MHz frequency band consists of five carrier components each having abandwidth of 20 MHz to transmit information, and the mobile stationapparatus transmits the ACK/NACK for information received with a 60 MHzfrequency band consists three carrier components each having a bandwidthof 20 MHz, the control information (control signal) from the basestation apparatus to the mobile station apparatus is produced. Thecontrol information (control signal) is increased according to thenumber of carrier components constituting the downlink frequency bandsand the number of carrier components constituting the uplink frequencybands.

The present invention is achieved in view of the foregoing situation; anobject of the present invention is to provide a mobile communicationsystem, a base station apparatus, a mobile station apparatus and acommunication method that can achieve effective informationcommunication without increasing control information (control signal)notified from the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatuswhen the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatuscommunicate with each other using a wider frequency band consists ofmultiple carrier components.

(1) To achieve the above object, the following means are taken in thepresent embodiment. A mobile communication system of the presentembodiment is the one in which abase station apparatus and a mobilestation apparatus communicate on multiple component carriers which areaggregated, wherein the base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus communicate such that each of multiple uplink componentcarriers corresponds to each of multiple downlink component carriers oreach of multiple downlink component carrier groups, and the downlinkcomponent carrier group consists of multiple downlink componentcarriers.

(2) Further, the mobile communication system of the present invention ischaracterized in that the base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus communicate using any one pair of the downlink componentcarrier and the uplink component carrier corresponding to each other.

(3) Further, the mobile communication system of the present invention ischaracterized in that the base station apparatus transmits on each ofthe multiple downlink component carriers or each of the multipledownlink component carrier groups, to the mobile station apparatus,uplink transmission permission signals in a same subframe, and themobile station apparatus performs on each of the multiple uplinkcomponent carriers, data transmission to the base station apparatus inthe same subframe according to the multiple uplink transmissionpermission signals.

(4) Further, the mobile communication system of the present invention ischaracterized in that the base station apparatus transmits on each ofthe multiple downlink component carriers or each of the multipledownlink component carrier groups, to the mobile station apparatus,uplink transmission permission signals in a same subframe, the basestation apparatus transmits in a same subframe, to the mobile stationapparatus, multiple PHICHs for data transmitted from the mobile stationapparatus on each of the multiple uplink component carriers, and themobile station apparatus performs on each of the multiple uplinkcomponent carriers, data transmission to the base station apparatus inthe same subframe according to the multiple uplink transmissionpermission signals.

(5) Further, the mobile communication system of the present invention ischaracterized in that the number of uplink transmission permissionsignals transmitted from the base station apparatus in the same subframeis equal to that of uplink component carriers.

(6) Further, the mobile communication system of the present invention ischaracterized in that the number of pieces of data transmitted from themobile station apparatus in the same subframe is equal to that of uplinkcomponent carriers.

(7) Further, the mobile communication system of the present invention ischaracterized in that the number of PHICHs transmitted from the basestation apparatus in the same subframe is equal to that of uplinkcomponent carriers.

(8) Further, the mobile communication system of the present invention ischaracterized in that the data transmitted from the mobile stationapparatus in the same subframe is transmitted using a physical uplinkshared channel.

(9) Further, the mobile communication system of the present invention ischaracterized in that the data transmitted from the mobile stationapparatus in the same subframe is transmitted using a physical uplinkcontrol channel.

(10) Further, the mobile communication system of the present inventionis characterized in that the mobile station apparatus performs, in thesame subframe, uplink data transmission on a physical uplink sharedchannel and control data transmission on a physical uplink controlchannel.

(11) Further, the mobile communication system of the present inventionis characterized in that the control data transmitted with the uplinkdata in the same subframe is information indicating the ACK/NACK fordownlink data.

(12) Further, the mobile communication system of the present inventionis characterized in that the control data transmitted with the uplinkdata in the same subframe is channel state information.

(13) Further, the mobile communication system of the present inventionis characterized in that the control data transmitted with the uplinkdata in the same subframe is scheduling request.

(14) A mobile communication system of the present invention is also theone in which a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatuscommunicate on multiple component carriers which are aggregated, whereinthe mobile station apparatus transmits channel state information withrespect to multiple downlink component carriers using a physical uplinkcontrol channel allocated on at least one of uplink component carriers.

(15) A mobile communication system of the present invention is also theone in which a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatuscommunicate on multiple component carriers which are aggregated, whereinthe mobile station apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus,scheduling request for requesting transmission of uplink data withrespect to multiple uplink component carriers using a physical uplinkcontrol channel allocated on at least one of uplink component carriers.

(16) Abase station apparatus of the present invention is the one in amobile communication system in which abase station apparatus and amobile station apparatus communicate on multiple component carrierswhich are aggregated, wherein the base station apparatus communicateswith the mobile station apparatus such that each of multiple uplinkcomponent carriers corresponds to each of multiple downlink componentcarriers or each of multiple downlink component carrier groups, and thedownlink component carrier group consists of multiple downlink componentcarriers.

(17) A mobile station apparatus of the present invention is the one in amobile communication system in which abase station apparatus and amobile station apparatus communicate on multiple component carrierswhich are aggregated, wherein the mobile station apparatus communicateswith the base station apparatus such that each of multiple uplinkcomponent carriers corresponds to each of multiple downlink componentcarriers or each of multiple downlink component carrier groups, and thedownlink component carrier group consists of multiple downlink componentcarriers.

(18) A communication method of the present invention is the one in whicha base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus communicate onmultiple component carriers which are aggregated, the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate such that each ofmultiple uplink component carriers corresponds to each of multipledownlink component carriers or each of multiple downlink componentcarrier groups, and the downlink component carrier group consists ofmultiple downlink component carriers.

According to the present invention, since the base station apparatus andthe mobile station apparatus communicate with each other such that eachof multiple uplink carrier components corresponds to each of multipledownlink carrier components or each of multiple downlink carriercomponent groups including multiple downlink carrier components, it ispossible to perform efficient communication without increasing thecontrol information (control signal) notified from the base stationapparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram conceptually showing a configuration of a physicalchannel according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a general configuration of a basestation apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a general configuration of a mobilestation apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a first embodiment;

FIG. 5A is a diagram showing an example of a mobile communication systemaccording to the first embodiment;

FIG. 5B is a diagram showing an example of the mobile communicationsystem according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 5C is a diagram showing an example of the mobile communicationsystem according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 6A is a diagram showing an example of the mobile communicationsystem according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 6B is a diagram showing an example of the mobile communicationsystem according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a second embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the mobile stationapparatus;

FIG. 9A is a diagram showing an example when the mobile stationapparatus transmits data;

FIG. 9B is a diagram showing an example when the mobile stationapparatus transmits data;

FIG. 9C is a diagram showing an example when the mobile stationapparatus transmits data;

FIG. 9D is a diagram showing an example when the mobile stationapparatus transmits data;

FIG. 10A is a diagram showing another example when the mobile stationapparatus transmits data;

FIG. 10B is a diagram showing another example when the mobile stationapparatus transmits data;

FIG. 10C is a diagram showing another example when the mobile stationapparatus transmits data;

FIG. 10D is a diagram showing another example when the mobile stationapparatus transmits data; and

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a conventional technology.

-   -   100 Base station apparatus    -   101 Data control portion    -   102 Transmission data modulation portion    -   103 Radio portion    -   104 Scheduling portion    -   105 Channel estimation portion    -   106 Reception data demodulation portion    -   107 Data extraction portion    -   108 Higher layer    -   109 Antenna    -   110 Radio resource control portion    -   200 Mobile station apparatus    -   201 Data control portion    -   202 Transmission data modulation portion    -   203 Radio portion    -   204 Scheduling portion    -   205 Channel estimation portion    -   206 Reception data demodulation portion    -   207 Data extraction portion    -   208 Higher layer    -   209 Antenna    -   210 Radio resource control portion

BEST MODES FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference tothe accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram conceptually showing anexample of a configuration of a physical channel according to anembodiment of the present invention. A downlink physical channel iscomposed of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), a physical downlinkcontrol channel (PDCCH), a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), aphysical multicast channel (PMCH), a physical control format indicatorchannel (PCFICH) and a physical hybrid ARG indicator channel (PHICH). Anuplink physical channel is composed of a physical uplink shared channel(PUSCH), a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and a physical randomaccess channel (PRACH). Theses channels are transmitted and receivedbetween the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus.

The physical broadcast channel (PBCH) maps a broadcast channel (BC)every 40 milliseconds. The timing of 40 milliseconds is subjected to ablind detection. Specifically, explicit signaling is not performed toprovide the timing. A sub-frame including the physical broadcast channel(PBCH) is self-decodable.

The physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is a channel that is usedto notify the mobile station apparatus of an uplink transmissionpermission, that is, resources allocation for the physical downlinkshared channel (PDSCH), resources allocation for hybrid automatic repeatrequest (HARQ) information for downlink data and resources allocationfor the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

When the resources allocation for the physical downlink shared channelis included in the PDCCH, the mobile station apparatus receives data(downlink data and/or downlink control data) using the physical downlinkshared channel (PDSCH) according to the resources allocation indicatedby the PDCCH from the base station apparatus. In other words, the PDCCHis a signal for performing the resources allocation on the downlink(hereinafter referred to as a “downlink transmission permission signal”or also referred to as a “downlink grant”). When the resourcesallocation for the physical uplink shared channel is included in thePDCCH, the mobile station apparatus transmits data (uplink data and/oruplink control data) using the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH)according to the resources allocation indicated by the PDCCH from thebase station apparatus. In other words, the PDCCH is a signal forpermitting data transmission on the uplink (hereinafter referred to asan “uplink transmission permission signal” or also referred to as an“uplink grant”).

The physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is a channel that is usedto transmit downlink data (downlink shared channel (DL-SCH)) or paginginformation (paging channel (PCH)). The physical multicast channel(PMCH) is a channel that is utilized to transmit a multicast channel(MCH); a downlink reference signal, an uplink reference signal and aphysical downlink synchronization signal are separately allocated.

Here, the downlink data (DL-SCH) indicates, for example, thetransmission of user data, and the DL-SCH is a transport channel. In theDL-SCH, HARQ and dynamic adaptive radio link control are supported, andbeam forming is available. In the DL-SCH, dynamic resources allocationand semi-static resources allocation are supported.

The physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is a channel that is used tomainly transmit uplink data (uplink shared channel (UL-SCH)). In casethat the base station apparatus performs scheduling on the mobilestation apparatus, control data described below is also transmittedusing the PUSCH. The control data includes channel state information(channel quality indicator of a down link (CQI)), a precoding matrixindicator (PMI), a rank indicator (RI), HARQ positive acknowledgement(ACK: positive acknowledgement)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) for adownlink transmission.

Here, the uplink data (UL-SCH) indicates, for example, the transmissionof user data, and the UL-SCH is a transport channel. In the UL-SCH, HAQand dynamic adaptive radio link control are supported, and beam formingis available. In the UL-SCH, dynamic resources allocation andsemi-static resources allocation are supported.

The uplink data (UL-SCH) and the downlink data (DL-SCH) may include aradio resource control signal (hereinafter referred to a RRC (radioresource control) signaling) and a MAC (medium access control) controlelement, which are exchanged between the base station apparatus and themobile station apparatus.

The physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is a channel that is used totransmit control data. Here, the control data includes, for example,channel state information (CQI, PMI and RI) transmitted (fed back) fromthe mobile station apparatus to the base station apparatus, schedulingrequest (SR) for requesting resources allocation for transmitting theuplink data (requesting transmission of the UL-SCH) and the ACK/NACK ofHARQ for downlink transmission.

The channel state information (CQI, PMI and RI) transmitted (fed back)from the mobile station apparatus to the base station apparatus will bedescribed. The base station apparatus switches radio transmissionparameters (hereinafter referred to as an AMC (adaptive modulation andcoding) mode) such as an error correction mode, an error correctioncoding rate and a data modulation order according to the channel quality(reception quality) of each mobile station apparatus, and thereby canachieve more efficient communication. CQI (also referred to as channelquality information, channel quality indicator) refers to informationthat indicates the channel quality (reception quality) fed back fromeach mobile station apparatus so as to switch the AMC; the mobilestation apparatus feeds back the channel quality (reception quality)indicating the quality of a signal received from the base stationapparatus as the CQI to the base station apparatus.

The base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus utilizetransmission diversity such as SDM (space division multiplexing) andSFBC (space-frequency block coding) and CDD (cycle delay diversity)utilizing MIMO (multiple input multiple output), and thus it is possibleto increase the capacity of a communication path. MIMO collectivelyrefers to a multi-input/multi-output system or technology, and ischaracterized in that a plurality of antennas is used on transmissionand reception sides to perform transmission using a plurality ofbranches of input and output of radio waves. The unit of a signalsequence that can be transmitted in space multiplexing utilizing theMIMO system is referred to as a stream; the number of streams requestedby the mobile station apparatus at the time of MIMO communication istransmitted (fed back) as the RI (rank indicator) from the mobilestation apparatus to the base station apparatus. When SDM is utilized inthe downlink, in order to properly separate information of a pluralityof streams transmitted from each antenna, a transmission signal sequenceis previously preprocessed (this is referred to as a “precoding”). Theprecoding information can be calculated based on a channel statusestimated by the mobile station apparatus, and it is transmitted (fedback) as the PMI (precoding matrix indicator) from the mobile stationapparatus to the base station apparatus.

As described above, in order to achieve communication of optimalquality, each mobile station apparatus transmits (feed back), to thebase station apparatus, the channel state information (CQI, PMI and RI)using PUCCH. For example, the mobile station apparatus can periodicallytransmit (feed back), to the base station apparatus, the channel stateinformation using the PUCCH. As described above, when the base stationapparatus performs scheduling, the mobile station apparatus uses thePUSCH to transmit the channel state information to the base stationapparatus. For example, the mobile station apparatus can a-periodicallytransmit (feedback) the channel state information using the PUSCHaccording to the scheduling by the base station apparatus.

The physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) is a channel thatis utilized to notify the mobile station apparatus of the number of OFDMsymbols used for PDCCH, and is transmitted by each sub-frame. Thephysical hybrid ARG indicator channel (PHICH) is a channel that isutilized to transmit the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the uplink data. Thephysical random access channel (PRACH) is a channel that is used totransmit a random access preamble, and has a guard time.

A communication system according to the present embodiment includes abase station apparatus 100 and a mobile station apparatuses 200.

[Base Station Apparatus]

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a general configuration of the basestation apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the presentinvention. The base station apparatus 100 includes a data controlportion 101, a transmission data modulation portion 102, a radio portion103, a scheduling portion 104, a channel estimation portion 105, areception data demodulation portion 106, a data extraction portion 107,a higher layer 108 and an antenna 109. Here, the radio portion 103, thescheduling portion 104, the channel estimation portion 105, thereception data demodulation portion 106, the data extraction portion107, the higher layer 108 and the antenna 109 constitute a receptionportion. The data control portion 101, the transmission data modulationportion 102, the radio portion 103, the scheduling portion 104, thehigher layer 108 and the antenna 109 constitute a transmission portion.

The antenna 109, the radio portion 103, the channel estimation portion105, the reception data demodulation portion 106 and the data extractionportion 107 perform processing on a physical layer in the uplink. Theantenna 109, the radio portion 103, the transmission data modulationportion 102 and the data control portion 101 perform processing on aphysical layer in the downlink.

The data control portion 101 receives a transport channel from thescheduling portion 104. Based on the transport channel and schedulinginformation input from the scheduling portion 104, the data controlportion 101 maps on the physical channel a signal and a channelgenerated by the physical layer. The data thus mapped is output to thetransmission data modulation portion 102.

The transmission data modulation portion 102 modulates the transmissiondata into an OFDM system. Based on the scheduling information (downlinkphysical resource block (PRB) allocation information (for example,information for position of physical resource blocks consists offrequency and time)) from the scheduling portion 104 and a modulationscheme and a coding scheme corresponding to each PRB (including, forexample, modulation scheme: 16QAM, coding rate: 2/3 coding rate), thetransmission data modulation portion 102 performs signal processing suchas data modulation, coding, an input signal serial/parallel conversion,IFFT (inverse fast Fourier transport) processing, CP (cyclic prefix)insertion and filtering on data input from the data control portion 101,and generates and outputs transmission data to the radio portion 103.

The radio portion 103 up-converts modulation data input from thetransmission data modulation portion 102 to a radio frequency togenerate a radio signal, and transmits it to the mobile stationapparatus 200 through the antenna 109. The radio portion 103 receives anuplink radio signal from the mobile station apparatus 200 through theantenna 109, down-converts it into a base band signal and outputs thereception data to the channel estimation portion 105 and the receptiondata demodulation portion 106.

The scheduling portion 104 performs processing on a medium accesscontrol (MAC) layer. The scheduling portion 104 performs mapping on alogical channel and a transport channel, scheduling on the downlink andthe uplink (such as HARQ processing and selection of a transport format)and the like. In the scheduling portion 104, in order to integrallycontrol the processing portions in each physical layer, interfaces arepresent between the scheduling portion 104 and the antenna 109, theradio portion 103, the channel estimation portion 105, the receptiondata demodulation portion 106, the data control portion 101, thetransmission data modulation portion 102 and the data extraction portion107 (not shown).

For the scheduling of the downlink, based on feedback information (suchas the channel state information (CQI, PMI and RI) on the uplink and theACK/NACK information for the downlink data) received from the mobilestation apparatus 200, PRB information available to each mobile stationapparatus, a buffer status, scheduling information input from the higherlayer 108 and the like, the scheduling portion 104 performs processingfor selecting a downlink transport format (transmission form, forexample, physical resource block allocation, a modulation scheme and acoding scheme) so as to modulate individual pieces of data, performsretransmission control on HARQ and generates scheduling information usedin the downlink. The scheduling information used for the scheduling ofthe downlink is output to the data control portion 101.

For the scheduling of the uplink, based on the result of estimation ofan uplink channel state (radio transport path state) output by thechannel estimation portion 105, resources allocation request from themobile station apparatus 200, PRB information available to each mobilestation apparatus, scheduling information input from the higher layer108 and the like, the scheduling portion 104 performs processing forselecting an uplink transport format (transmission form, for example,physical resource block allocation, a modulation scheme and a codingscheme) so as to modulate individual pieces of data and generatesscheduling information used for the scheduling of the uplink. Thescheduling information used for the scheduling of the uplink is outputto the data control portion 101.

The scheduling portion 104 maps the downlink logical channel input fromthe higher layer 108 on the transport channel, and outputs it to thedata control portion 101. The scheduling portion 104 performsprocessing, as necessary, on the control data input from the dataextraction portion 107 and received in the uplink and the transportchannel, then maps them on the uplink logical channel and outputs themto the higher layer 108.

In order to demodulate the uplink data, the channel estimation portion105 estimates the uplink channel state from an uplink demodulationreference signal (DRS), and outputs the result of the estimation to thereception data demodulation portion 106. In order to perform uplinkscheduling, the channel estimation portion 105 also estimates the uplinkchannel state from an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS), andoutputs the result of the estimation to the scheduling portion 104.

The reception data demodulation portion 106 also acts as an OFDMdemodulation portion and/or a DFT-spread-OFDM (DFT-S-OFDM) demodulationportion that demodulate the reception data modulated in the OFDM systemand/or the SC-FDMA system. Based on the result of estimation of theuplink channel state input from the channel estimation portion 105, thereception data demodulation portion 106 performs signal processing suchas DFT transform, sub-carrier mapping, IFFT transform and filtering onmodulation data input from the radio portion 103, to performdemodulation processing, and outputs it to the data extraction portion107.

The data extraction portion 107 checks whether or not data input fromthe reception data demodulation portion 106 is right or wrong, andoutputs the result of the check (positive signal ACK/negative signalNACK) to the scheduling portion 104. The data extraction portion 107separates the data input from the reception data demodulation portion106 into a transport channel and control data on a physical layer, andoutputs them to the scheduling portion 104. The separated control dataincludes the channel state information (CQI, PMI and RI), the ACK/NACKinformation and the scheduling request notified from the mobile stationapparatus 200.

The higher layer 108 performs processing on a packet data convergenceprotocol (PDCP) layer, a radio link control (RLC) layer and a radioresource control (RRC) layer. In the higher layer 108, in order tointegrally control the processing portions in a lower layer, interfacesare present between the higher layer 108 and the scheduling portion 104,the antenna 109, the radio portion 103, the channel estimation portion105, the reception data demodulation portion 106, the data controlportion 101, the transmission data modulation portion 102 and the dataextraction portion 107 (not shown).

The higher layer 108 has a radio resource control portion 110 (alsoreferred simply to as a “control portion”). The radio resource controlportion 110 performs control on various types of setting information,system information, paging, the communication state of each mobilestation apparatus, mobility such as handover, the buffer status of eachmobile station apparatus, the connection setting of unicast andmulticast bearers, a mobile station indicator (UEID) and the like. Thehigher layer 108 exchanges information with another base stationapparatus and a higher node.

[Mobile Station Apparatus]

FIG. 3 is a block diagram schematically showing a general configurationof the mobile station apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of thepresent invention. The mobile station apparatus 200 includes a datacontrol portion 201, a transmission data modulation portion 202, a radioportion 203, a scheduling portion 204, a channel estimation portion 205,a reception data demodulation portion 206, a data extraction portion207, a higher layer 208 and an antenna 209. Here, the data controlportion 201, the transmission data modulation portion 202, the radioportion 203, the scheduling portion 204, the higher layer 208 and theantenna 209 constitute a transmission portion. The radio portion 203,the scheduling portion 204, the channel estimation portion 205, thereception data demodulation portion 206, the data extraction portion207, the higher layer 208 and the antenna 209 constitute a receptionportion.

The data control portion 201, the transmission data modulation portion202 and the radio portion 203 perform processing on a physical layer inthe uplink. The radio portion 203, the channel estimation portion 205,the reception data demodulation portion 206 and the data extractionportion 207 perform processing on a physical layer in the downlink.

The data control portion 201 receives a transport channel from thescheduling portion 204. Based on the transport channel and schedulinginformation input from the scheduling portion 204, the data controlportion 201 maps on the physical channel a signal and a channelgenerated by the physical layer; based on the scheduling informationinput from the scheduling portion 204. The data thus mapped is output tothe transmission data modulation portion 202.

The transmission data modulation portion 202 modulates the transmissiondata into the OFDM system and/or the SC-FDMA system. The transmissiondata modulation portion 202 performs, on the data input from the datacontrol portion 201, signal processing such as data modulation, DFT(discrete Fourier transform) processing, sub-carrier mapping, IFFT(inverse fast Fourier transform) processing, CP insertion and filtering,and generates and outputs transmission data to the radio portion 203.

The radio portion 203 up-converts modulation data input from thetransmission data modulation portion 202 to a radio frequency togenerate a radio signal, and transmits it to the base station apparatus100 through the antenna 209. The radio portion 203 receives a radiosignal modulated with downlink data from the base station apparatus 100through the antenna 209, down-converts it into a base band signal andoutputs reception data to the channel estimation portion 205 and thereception data demodulation portion 206.

The scheduling portion 204 performs processing on a medium accesscontrol (MAC) layer. The scheduling portion 204 performs mapping on alogical channel and a transport channel, scheduling on the downlink andthe uplink (such as HARQ processing and selection of a transport format)and the like. In the scheduling portion 204, in order to integrallycontrol the processing portions in each physical layer, interfaces arepresent between the scheduling portion 204 and the antenna 209, the datacontrol portion 201, the transmission data modulation portion 202, thechannel estimation portion 205, the reception data demodulation portion206, the data extraction portion 207 and the radio portion 203 (notshown). For the scheduling of the downlink, based on the schedulinginformation (transport format and HARQ retransmission information) fromthe base station apparatus 100 and the higher layer 208 and the like,the scheduling portion 204 performs reception controls on the transportchannel, a physical signal and a physical channel, performs HARQretransmission control and generates scheduling information used fordownlink scheduling. The scheduling information used for the downlinkscheduling is output to the data control portion 201.

For the scheduling of the uplink, based on the status of an uplinkbuffer input from the higher layer 208, the uplink schedulinginformation (such as transport format and HARQ retransmissioninformation) from the base station apparatus 100 input from the dataextraction portion 207, scheduling information input from the higherlayer 208 and the like, the scheduling portion 204 performs schedulingprocessing for mapping an uplink logical channel input from the higherlayer 208 on the transport channel and generates scheduling informationused for scheduling of the uplink. With respect to the uplink transportformat, information notified from the base station apparatus 100 isutilized. The scheduling information described above is output to thedata control portion 201.

The scheduling portion 204 maps the uplink logical channel input fromthe higher layer 208 on the transport channel, and outputs it to thedata control portion 201. The scheduling portion 204 also outputs to thedata control portion 201 downlink channel state information (CQI, PMIand RI) input from the channel estimation portion 205 and the CRC resultinput from the data extraction portion 207. The scheduling portion 204performs processing, as necessary, on the control data input from thedata extraction portion 207 and received in the downlink and thetransport channel, then maps them on the downlink logical channel andoutputs them to the higher layer 208.

In order to demodulate the downlink data, the channel estimation portion205 estimates the downlink channel state from a downlink referencesignal (RS), and outputs the result of the estimation to the receptiondata demodulation portion 206. In order to notify the base stationapparatus 100 of the result of the estimation of the downlink channelstate (radio propagation path state), the channel estimation portion 205estimates the downlink channel state from the downlink reference signal(RS), converts the result of the estimation into the downlink channelstate information (such as CQI, PMI and RI) and outputs it to thescheduling portion 204.

The reception data demodulation portion 206 demodulates the receptiondata modulated in the OFDM system. Based on the result of the estimationof the downlink channel state input from the channel estimation portion205, the reception data demodulation portion 206 performs demodulationprocessing on the modulated data input from the radio portion 203, andoutputs it to the data extraction portion 207.

The data extraction portion 207 performs CRC on the data input from thereception data demodulation portion 206 to check whether it is right orwrong, and outputs the result of the check (positive responseACK/negative response NACK) to the scheduling portion 204. The dataextraction portion 207 separates the data input from the reception datademodulation portion 206 into a transport channel and control data on aphysical layer, and outputs them to the scheduling portion 204. Theseparated control data includes scheduling information such as downlinkor uplink resources allocation and HARQ control information on theuplink.

The higher layer 208 performs processing on a packet data convergenceprotocol (PDCP) layer, a radio link control (RLC) layer and a radioresource control (RRC) layer. In the higher layer 208, in order tointegrally control the processing portions in a lower layer, interfacesare present between the higher layer 208 and the scheduling portion 204,the antenna 209, the data control portion 201, the transmission datamodulation portion 202, the channel estimation portion 205, thereception data demodulation portion 206, the data extraction portion 207and the radio portion 203 (not shown). The higher layer 208 has a radioresource control portion 210 (also referred to as a control portion).The radio resource control portion 210 performs control on various typesof setting information, system information, paging, the communicationstate of the own station, mobility such as handover, a buffer status,the connection setting of unicast and multicast bearers and a mobilestation indicator (UEID).

First Embodiment

A first embodiment of a mobile communication system using the basestation apparatus 100 and the mobile station apparatus 200 will now bedescribed. In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment,a frequency band used in an uplink communication consists of multiplecarrier components, a frequency band used in a downlink communicationconsists of multiple carrier components or a carrier component groupincluding multiple carrier components and it is possible to performcommunication such that each of the multiple uplink carrier componentscorresponds to each of the multiple downlink carrier components or eachof the multiple downlink carrier component groups including the multipledownlink carrier components. In this case, with any one of groups ofdownlink carrier components and uplink carrier components correspondingto each other, the base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus can communicate with each other. Although, in the presentembodiment, the frequency band is defined by a bandwidth (Hz), it may bedefined by the number of resource blocks consists of frequency and time.

In the present embodiment, the carrier component refers to a (narrower)frequency band used when the base station apparatus and the mobilestation apparatus communicate with each other in the mobilecommunication system having a (wider) system band. The base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus aggregate multiple carriercomponents (for example, five frequency bands each having a bandwidth of20 MHz) (also referred to as spectrum aggregation, frequencyaggregation, carrier aggregation or the like), and thus it is possibleto form a (wider) system band (for example, a system band having abandwidth of 100 MHz) and achieve fast communication (informationtransmission and reception). The carrier component refers to each of(narrower) frequency bands (for example, frequency bands each having abandwidth of 20 MHz) that constitute the (wider) system. band (forexample, a frequency band having a bandwidth of 100 MHz). In otherwords, the downlink carrier component has part of the bandwidth of thefrequency band that can be used by the base station apparatus, and theuplink carrier component has part of the bandwidth of the frequency bandthat can be used by the mobile station apparatus. The carrier componentsmay also be defined as units of which a specific physical channel (forexample, the PDCCH or the PUCCH) is composed.

The carrier components themselves that constitute the wider frequencyband may be further consists of multiple carrier components. In thepresent embodiment, the carrier component consists of multiple carriercomponents (group) is referred to as a carrier component group. Forexample, in the present embodiment, the wider system band (for example,a system band having a bandwidth of 100 MHz) can be constituted of twocarrier component groups (for example, a carrier component group havinga bandwidth of 40 MHz and a carrier component group having a bandwidthof 60 MHz), and furthermore, each of these two carrier component groupscan be constituted of multiple carrier components. For example, acarrier component group having a bandwidth of 40 MHz can be formed byaggregating two carrier components each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz; acarrier component group having a bandwidth of 60 MHz can be formed byaggregating three carrier components each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz.

The carrier component and the carrier component group may be allocatedin a continuous frequency band or a non-continuous frequency band; awider system band can be formed by aggregating multiple carriercomponents and/or carrier component groups that are a continuousfrequency band and/or a non-continuous frequency band. Furthermore, thesystem band consists of carrier components and/or carrier componentgroups used in the downlink communication and the system band consistsof carrier components used in the uplink communication do not need tohave the same bandwidth. The base station apparatus and the mobilestation apparatus can communicate with each other using a system bandthat has different bandwidths between the uplink and the downlink.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the first embodiment and showing afrequency band used in the downlink and uplink communication. FIG. 4shows that a wider system band used in the downlink communication, thatis, a system band (hereinafter referred to as a “DL system band”)obtained by aggregating downlink carrier components within the system,is constituted of five carrier components (DL-1, DL-2, DL-3, DL-4 andDL-5). FIG. 5 also shows that a wider system band used in the uplinkcommunication, that is, a system band (hereinafter referred to as a “ULsystem band”) obtained by aggregating uplink carrier components withinthe system, is constituted of five carrier components (UL-1, UL-2, UL-3,UL-4 and UL-5). It can be considered that that the DL system band isconstituted of DL-1, DL-2, DL-3, DL-4 and DL-5 means that the DL systemband can be divided into DL-1, DL-2, DL-3, DL-4 and DL-5. It can also beconsidered that that the UL system band is constituted of UL-1, UL-2,UL-3, UL-4 and UL-5 means that the UL system band can be divided intoUL-1, UL-2, UL-3, UL-4 and UL-5.

In the mobile communication system of the first embodiment, when thebase station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate witheach other using the wider system band of the downlink and the uplinkconsist of carrier components, they can perform the communication suchthat each of the carrier components constituting the UL system bandcorresponds to one of the carrier components or one of the carriercomponent groups constituting the DL system band. For example the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus can communicate witheach other such that UL-1, UL-2, UL-3, UL-4 and UL-5 correspond to DL-1,DL-2, DL-3, DL-4 and DL-5, respectively. For example, the mobile stationapparatus can transmit uplink information corresponding to informationtransmitted from the base station apparatus using DL-1(for example, theACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlink data transmitted using DL-1), usingcorresponding UL-1.

Furthermore, in the mobile communication system of the first embodiment,the mobile station apparatus can perform communication using one of thecombinations of the carrier components constituting the uplink systemband and one carrier component constituting the downlink system bandthat correspond to each other as described above.

In other words, in the mobile communication system of the firstembodiment, the mobile station apparatus having capability of performingcommunication using the wider system band consists of carriercomponents, can perform communication using any of the combinations ofthe carrier components constituting the uplink system band and thecarrier components or the carrier component groups constituting thedownlink system band. Here, as described later, the mobile stationapparatus having capability of performing communication using the widersystem band, can also perform communication using one combination ofcorresponding carrier components or carrier component groups.

The mobile station apparatus having capability of performingcommunication using a specific plurality of combinations among thecombinations of the carrier components constituting the uplink systemband and the carrier components constituting the downlink system band orthe carrier component groups can perform communication using thespecific plurality of combinations. Here, as described below, the mobilestation apparatus having capability of performing communication using aspecific plurality of combinations among the combinations of the carriercomponents constituting the uplink system band and the carriercomponents constituting the downlink system band or the carriercomponent groups can also perform communication using one combination ofcorresponding carrier components.

The mobile station apparatus having capability of performingcommunication using only one of the combinations of the carriercomponents constituting the uplink system band and the carriercomponents constituting the downlink system band or the carriercomponent groups can perform communication using its combination of thecarrier components.

Hereinafter, the mobile communication system in which the mobile stationapparatus having capability of performing communication using the widersystem band operates is also referred to as a full system, and themobile communication system in which the mobile station apparatus havingcapability of performing communication using one combination ofcorresponding carrier components or carrier component groups operates isalso referred to as a sub-system. As described above, the mobilecommunication system includes the full system and the sub-system, andthus it is possible to make mobile station apparatuses (mobile stationapparatuses having different capabilities) using different frequencybands for communication coexist efficiently with each other using thesame frequency band.

In the mobile communication system as shown in the first embodiment, itscapability can be made correspond to an applicable system (such as anLTE mobile station apparatus or LTE-A mobile station apparatus).Specifically, the LTE-A (LTE-A capable) mobile station apparatus can beoperated using the DL system band and the UL system band consists ofmultiple carrier components, and furthermore, the LTE-A (LTE-A capable)mobile station apparatus and the LTE (LTE capable) mobile stationapparatus can be operated using DL-1 and UL-1 (at least one combinationof carrier components or carrier component groups).

Moreover, in the mobile communication system as shown in the firstembodiment, its capability can be made correspond to a release version(such as a Rel-8 mobile station apparatus, a Rel-9 mobile stationapparatus or a Rel-10 mobile station apparatus) of the mobile stationapparatus. Specifically, the Rel-10 mobile station apparatus can beoperated using the DL system band and the UL system band consists ofmultiple carrier components; and furthermore, the Rel-10 mobile stationapparatuses and the Rel-9 mobile station apparatuses can be operatedusing DL-2 and UL-2 (at least one combination of carrier components orcarrier component groups), and, the Rel-10 mobile station apparatuses,the Rel-9 mobile station apparatuses and the Rel-8 mobile stationapparatuses can be operated using DL-1 and UL-1 (at least onecombination of carrier components or carrier component groups).

FIGS. 5A to 5C and FIGS. 6A and 6B are diagrams showing examples of themobile communication system to which the first embodiment is applied.FIG. 5A shows a mobile communication system in which the bandwidth (DLsystem band) of the frequency band used in the downlink communication is100 MHz and the bandwidth (UL system band) of the frequency band used inthe uplink communication is 100 MHz. FIG. 5A shows that, in the mobilecommunication system, the DL system band is constituted of five carriercomponents (DL-1, DL-2, DL-3, DL-4 and DL-5) each having a bandwidth of20 MHz and the UL system band is constituted of five carrier components(UL-1, UL-2, UL-3, UL-4 and UL-5) each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz. Thebase station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus can communicatewith each other (transmission and reception of information) such thatthe five carrier components constituting the DL system band correspondto the five carrier components constituting the UL system band,respectively. For example, the base station apparatus and the mobilestation apparatus can communicate with each other such that

DL-1, DL-2, DL-3, DL-4 and DL-5 correspond to UL-1, UL-2, UL-3, UL-4 andUL-5, respectively, and the mobile station apparatus can transmit, usingUL-1, the ACK/NACK for information (downlink data) transmitted by thebase station apparatus using DL-1. Moreover, the base station apparatuscan transmit, using DL-1, the ACK/NACK for information (uplink data)transmitted by the mobile station apparatus using UL-1.

Here, the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5A can be regardedas a mobile communication system that divides the DL system band havinga bandwidth of 100 MHz into multiple carrier components (consists ofmultiple carrier components), corresponding to the number of (five)carrier components each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz constituting the ULsystem band having a bandwidth of 100 MHz. The DL system band isconstituted of the same number of carrier components as the carriercomponents constituting the UL system band, and thus it is possible tosimplify the correspondence between the carrier components constitutingthe UL system band and the carrier components constituting the DL systemband, thereby enabling an efficient communication between the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus. In other words, FIG.5A shows that, in the mobile communication system, when the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate with each otherusing the wider system band consists of carrier components, the DLsystem band is constituted of multiple carrier components (for example,the DL system band is constituted of five carrier components) accordingto the number (for example, five) of carrier components constituting theUL system band, and it is possible to perform a communication such thateach of the carrier components correspond to each other (for example,such that the carrier components constituting the UL system bandcorrespond to the carrier components constituting the DL system band ina direction so as to increase their frequencies).

Here, how the carrier components constituting the UL system band is madecorrespond respectively to the carrier components constituting the DLsystem band can be previously defined such as by specifications.Specifically, the correspondence between each of the carrier componentsconstituting the UL system band and one of the carrier componentsconstituting the DL system band can be defined such as byspecifications; which of the carrier components (any one of UL-1, UL-2,UL-3, UL-4 and UL-5) the mobile station apparatus uses to transmitinformation according to information transmitted by the base stationapparatus using DL-1 can be previously defined. For example, thatcommunication can be performed according to the position of thefrequency of each of the carrier components constituting the downlinksystem bands and the uplink system bands (for example, such that thecarrier components constituting the downlink system bands and the uplinksystem bands correspond to each other in a direction so as to increasetheir frequencies) as described above is previously defined such as byspecifications.

Also, a notification of how each of the carrier components constitutingthe UL system band corresponds to one of the carrier componentsconstituting the DL system band may be given as information (controlinformation) by the base station apparatus to the mobile stationapparatus. In other words, the correspondence between each of thecarrier components constituting the UL system band and one of thecarrier components constituting the DL system band can be transmitted asthe information (control information) from the base station apparatus tothe mobile station apparatus.

For example, the base station apparatus can transmit, to the mobilestation apparatus, information (hereinafter referred to as carriercomponent correspondence information) with respect to the correspondencebetween each of the carrier components of the downlink and the uplinkusing a broadcast channel (broadcast signal). The base station apparatususes the broadcast channel to broadcast the carrier componentcorrespondence information, and thereby it is possible to set thecarrier component correspondence information cell-specifically for allmobile station apparatuses present within the cell that is controlled(managed) by the base station apparatus. Specifically, the base stationapparatus broadcasts, to all the mobile station apparatuses presentwithin the cell, the carrier component correspondence information usingthe broadcast channel; and the mobile station apparatus that hasreceived the signal, can perform communication (transmission andreception of information) according to the carrier componentcorrespondence information such that each of the carrier componentsconstituting the uplink frequency band (UL system band) corresponds toone of the carrier components constituting the downlink frequency band(DL system band).

Also, for example, the base station apparatus can transmit, to themobile station apparatus, the carrier component correspondenceinformation using a radio resource control signal (hereinafter alsoreferred to as a RRC signaling). The base station apparatus transmits,to the mobile station apparatus, the RRC signaling including the carriercomponent correspondence information, and thus it is possible to set thecarrier component correspondence information the mobile stationapparatus-dedicatedly. Specifically, the base station apparatustransmits, to the mobile station apparatus, the RRC signaling includingthe carrier component correspondence information; the mobile stationapparatus that has received the signal, can perform communication(transmission and reception of information) according to the carriercomponent correspondence information such that each of the carriercomponents constituting the uplink frequency band (UL system band)corresponds to one of the carrier components constituting the downlinkfrequency band (DL system band).

Also, how the DL system band and/or the UL system band are constitutedof the carrier components can be previously defined such as byspecifications. For example, in FIG. 5A, the DL system band isconstituted of five carrier components (DL-1, DL-2, DL-3, DL-4 and DL-5)each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz; as described later, the DL systemband can be constituted of two carrier components, that is, a carriercomponent (DL-1) having a bandwidth of 40 MHz and a carrier component(DL-2) having a bandwidth of 60 MHz, or the DL system band can beconstituted of three carrier components, that is, a carrier component(DL-1) having a bandwidth of 20 MHz, a carrier component (DL-2) having abandwidth of 20 MHz and a carrier component (DL-3) having a bandwidth of40 MHz.

Alternatively, for example, the DL system band can be constituted of acarrier component (DL-1) having a bandwidth of 60 MHz and a carriercomponent (DL-2) having a bandwidth of 40 MHz, or the DL system band canbe constituted of a carrier component (DL-1) having a bandwidth of 30MHz and a carrier component (DL-2) having a bandwidth of 70 MHz. How theDL system band is constituted of the carrier components can bepreviously defined. Likewise, for example, the UL system band can beconstituted of a carrier component (UL-1) having a bandwidth of 10 MHzand a carrier component (UL-2) having a bandwidth of 30 MHz, or the ULsystem band can be constituted of a carrier component (UL-1) having abandwidth of 30 MHz and a carrier component (UL-2) having a bandwidth of10 MHz. How the UL system band is constituted of the carrier componentscan be previously defined.

Also a notification of how the DL system band and/or the UL system bandare constituted of carrier components may be given as information(control information) by the base station apparatus to the mobilestation apparatus. For example, the base station apparatus can transmit,to the mobile station apparatus, information (hereinafter referred to aswider frequency band configuration information) with respect to theconfiguration of a wider system band consists of carrier components,using the broadcast channel (broadcast signal). The base stationapparatus uses the broadcast channel to broadcast the wide frequencyband configuration information, and thus the base station apparatus canset the wider frequency band configuration information cell-specificallyfor all mobile station apparatuses present within the cell that iscontrolled (managed) by the base station apparatus. Specifically, thebase station apparatus broadcast, to all mobile station apparatusespresent within the cell, the wide frequency band configurationinformation using the broadcast channel; the mobile station apparatusthat has received the signal, can perform communication (transmissionand reception of information) according to the wider frequency bandconfiguration information such that the DL system band and/or the ULsystem band are constituted of carrier components and that each of thecarrier components constituting the uplink frequency band (UL systemband) corresponds to one of the carrier components constituting thedownlink frequency band (DL system band).

For example, the base station apparatus can transmit, to the mobilestation apparatus, the wider frequency band configuration informationusing a radio resource control signal (hereinafter also referred to asthe “RRC signaling”). The base station apparatus transmits, to themobile station apparatus, the RRC signaling including the widerfrequency band configuration information, and thus it is possible to setthe wider frequency band configuration information the mobile stationapparatus-dedicatedly. Specifically, the base station apparatustransmits, to the mobile station apparatus, the RRC signaling includingthe wider frequency band configuration information; the mobile stationapparatus that has received the signal, can perform communication(transmission and reception of information) such that the DL system bandand/or the UL system band are configured according to the widerfrequency band configuration information and that each of the carriercomponents constituting the uplink frequency band (UL system band)corresponds to one of the carrier components constituting the downlinkfrequency band (DL system band).

The configuration of a mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5B willbe described. FIG. 5B shows the mobile communication system in which thebandwidth of the frequency band used in the downlink communication (DLsystem band) is 100 MHz and the bandwidth of the frequency band used inthe uplink communication (UL system band) is 40 MHz. In the mobilecommunication system shown in FIG. 5B, the DL system band is constitutedof two carrier components, that is, a carrier component (DL-1) having abandwidth of 40 MHz and a carrier component (DL-2) having a bandwidth of60 MHz, and the UL system band is constituted of two carrier components(UL-1 and UL-2) each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz. The base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus can communicate with eachother (transmission and reception of information) such that the twocarrier components constituting the DL system band correspond to the twocarrier components constituting the UL system band, respectively. Forexample, the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatuscommunicate with each other such that DL-1 and DL-2 correspond to UL-1and UL-2, respectively; and the mobile station apparatus can transmit,using UL-1, the ACK/NACK for information (downlink data) transmitted bythe base station apparatus using DL-1. Moreover, the base stationapparatus can transmit, using DL-1, the ACK/NACK for information (uplinkdata) transmitted by the mobile station apparatus using UL-1.

Here, the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5B can also beregarded as a mobile communication system that divides a DL system bandhaving a bandwidth of 100 MHz into multiple carrier components (consistsof multiple carrier components) such that the DL system band correspondsto the number (two) of carrier components each having a bandwidth of 20MHz constituting the UL system band having a bandwidth of 40 MHz. The DLsystem band is constituted of the same number of carrier components asthe carrier components constituting the UL system band, and thus it ispossible to simplify the correspondence between each of the carriercomponents constituting the UL system band and the carrier componentsconstituting the DL system band, thereby enabling efficientcommunication between the base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus. In other words, in the mobile communication system shown inFIG. 5B, when the base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus communicate with each other using the wider system bandconsists of carrier components, the DL system band is constituted ofmultiple carrier components (for example, the DL system band isconstituted of two carrier components) according to the number (forexample, two) of carrier components constituting the UL system band, andit is possible to perform a communication such that each of the carriercomponents correspond to each other (for example, the carrier componentsconstituting the UL system band correspond to the carrier componentsconstituting the DL system band in a direction so as to increase theirfrequencies).

Here, as described above, how each of the carrier componentsconstituting the UL system band corresponds to one of the carriercomponents constituting the DL system band can be previously definedsuch as by specifications. Specifically, the correspondence between thecarrier components (UL-1 and UL-2) constituting the UL system band andone of the carrier components (DL-1 and DL-2) constituting the DL systemband can be defined such as by specifications. Also, a notification ofinformation (carrier component correspondence information) as to howeach of the carrier components constituting the UL system bandcorresponds to one of the carrier components constituting the DL systemband may be given by the base station apparatus to the mobile stationapparatus. The base station apparatus transmits, to the mobile stationapparatus, the carrier component correspondence information using thebroadcast channel (broadcast signal) or the RRC signaling, and thus itis possible to set, to the mobile station apparatus, the carriercomponent correspondence information cell-specifically or the carriercomponent correspondence information the mobile stationapparatus-dedicatedly.

Here, as described above, how the DL system band and/or the UL systemband are consisted of the carrier components can be previously definedsuch as by specifications. Specifically, how the DL system band isconstituted of the carrier components and how the UL system band isconstituted of the carrier components can be previously defined such asby specifications. Also, a notification of information (wider frequencyband configuration information) as to how the DL system band and/or theUL system band are constituted of the carrier components may be given bythe base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus. The basestation apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, the widerfrequency band configuration information using the broadcast channel(broadcast signal) or the RRC signaling, and thus it is possible to set,to the mobile station apparatus, the wider frequency band configurationinformation cell-specifically or the wider frequency band configurationinformation the mobile station apparatus-dedicatedly.

The configuration of a mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5C willbe described. FIG. 5C shows the mobile communication system in which thebandwidth of the frequency band used in the downlink communication (DLsystem band) is 80 MHz and the bandwidth of the frequency band used inthe uplink communication (UL system band) is 60 MHz. In the mobilecommunication system shown in FIG. 5C, the DL system band is constitutedof three carrier components, that is, a carrier component (DL-1) havinga bandwidth of 20 MHz, a carrier component (DL-2) having a bandwidth of20 MHz and a carrier component (DL-3) having a bandwidth of 40 MHz, andthe UL system band is constituted of three carrier components (UL-1,UL-2 and UL-3) each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz. The base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus can communicate with eachother (transmission and reception of information) such that the threecarrier components constituting the DL system band correspond to thethree carrier components constituting the UL system band, respectively.For example, the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatuscommunicate with each other such that DL-1, DL-2 and DL-3 correspond toUL-1, UL-2 and UL-3, respectively; the mobile station apparatus cantransmit, using UL-1, the ACK/NACK for information (downlink data)transmitted by the base station apparatus using DL-1, and the basestation apparatus can transmit, using DL-1, the ACK/NACK for information(uplink data) transmitted by the mobile station apparatus using UL-1.

Here, the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5C can also beregarded as a mobile communication system that divides a DL system bandhaving a bandwidth of 80 MHz into multiple carrier components (consistsof multiple carrier components) such that the DL system band correspondsto the number (three) of carrier components each having a bandwidth of20 MHz constituting the UL system band having a bandwidth of 60 MHz. TheDL system band is constituted of the same number of carrier componentsas carrier components constituting the UL system band, and thus it ispossible to simplify the correspondence between each of the carriercomponents constituting the UL system band and the carrier componentsconstituting the DL system band, thereby enabling efficientcommunication between the base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus. In other words, in the mobile communication system shown inFIG. 5C, when the base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus communicate with each other using the wider system bandconsists of carrier components, the DL system band is constituted ofmultiple carrier components (for example, the DL system band isconstituted of three carrier components) according to the number (forexample, three) of carrier components constituting the UL system band,and it is possible to perform a communication such that each of thecarrier components correspond to each other (for example, the carriercomponents constituting the UL system band correspond to the carriercomponents constituting the DL system band in a direction so as toincrease their frequencies).

Here, as described above, how each of the carrier componentsconstituting the UL system band corresponds to one of the carriercomponents constituting the DL system band can be previously definedsuch as by specifications. Specifically, the correspondence between thecarrier components (UL-1, UL-2 and UL-3) constituting the UL system bandand the carrier components (DL-1, DL-2 and DL-3) constituting the DLsystem band can be defined such as by specifications. Also, anotification of information (carrier component correspondenceinformation) as to how each of the carrier components constituting theUL system band corresponds to one of the carrier components constitutingthe DL system band may be given by the base station apparatus to themobile station apparatus. The base station apparatus transmits, to themobile station apparatus, the carrier component correspondenceinformation using the broadcast channel (broadcast signal) or the RRCsignaling, and thus it is possible to set, to the mobile stationapparatus, the carrier component correspondence informationcell-specifically or the carrier component correspondence informationthe mobile station apparatus-dedicatedly.

Here, as described above, how the DL system band and/or the UL systemband are constituted of the carrier components can be previously definedsuch as by specifications. Specifically, how the DL system band isconstituted of the carrier components and how the UL system band isconstituted of the carrier components are previously defined such as byspecifications. Also, a notification of information (wider frequencyband configuration information) as to how the DL system band and/or theUL system band are constituted of the carrier components may be given bythe base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus. The basestation apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, the widefrequency band configuration information using the broadcast channel(broadcast signal) or the RRC signaling, and thus it is possible to set,to the mobile station apparatus, the wide frequency band configurationinformation cell-specifically or the wide frequency band configurationinformation the mobile station apparatus-dedicatedly.

Furthermore, in the first embodiment, the base station apparatus and themobile station apparatus can communicate with each other such that eachof the carrier components constituting the UL system band corresponds tothe carrier component group including (consists of) multiple carriercomponents constituting the DL system band. In other words, the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus can communicate witheach other such that each of multiple uplink carrier componentscorresponds to each of multiple downlink carrier component groupsincluding multiple downlink carrier components. For example, as shown inFIG. 6A, the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus cancommunicate with each other such that UL-1 and UL-2 correspond toDL-1-1, DL-1-2 included in (constituting) DL-1 and DL-2-1, DL-2-2 andDL-2-3 included in (constituting) DL-2, respectively.

As described above, in the first embodiment, a carrier componentconsists of multiple carrier components (group) is referred to as acarrier component group. That is, the base station apparatus and themobile station apparatus can communicate with each other such that eachof the carrier components constituting the UL system band corresponds toone of a plurality of carrier component groups constituting the DLsystem band.

FIG. 6A shows a mobile communication system in which a bandwidth of afrequency band used in the downlink communication (DL system band) is100 MHz and a bandwidth of a frequency band used in the uplinkcommunication (UL system band) is 40 MHz. In the mobile communicationsystem shown in FIG. 6A, a carrier component group (DL-1) having abandwidth of 40 MHz constituting the DL system band is further consistsof two carrier components (DL-1-1 and DL-1-2) each having a bandwidth of20 MHz, and a carrier component group (DL-2) having a bandwidth of 60MHz constituting the DL system band is further consists of three carriercomponents (DL-2-1, DL-2-2 and DL-2-3) each having a bandwidth of 20MHz. In other words, the DL system band is constituted of two carriercomponent groups (DL-1 and DL-2).

The base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus cancommunicate with each other (transmission and reception of information)such that each of the carrier components (UL-1 and UL-2) constitutingthe UL system band corresponds to multiple carrier component groups(DL-1: DL-1-1 and DL-1-2, DL-2: DL-2-1, DL-2-2 and DL-2-3) constitutingthe DL system band. For example, the base station apparatus and themobile station apparatus communicate with each other such that DL-1-1and DL-1-2 correspond to UL-1 and DL-2-1, DL-2-2 and DL-2-3 correspondto UL-2; the mobile station apparatus can transmit, using UL-1, theACK/NACK for information (downlink data) transmitted by the base stationapparatus using DL-1-1 and DL-1-2, and furthermore, the mobile stationapparatus can transmit, using UL-2, the ACK/NACK for information(downlink data) transmitted by the base station apparatus using DL-2-1,DL-2-2 and DL-2-3. Moreover, the base station apparatus can transmit,using DL-1-1 and DL-1-2, the ACK/NACK for information (uplink data)transmitted by the mobile station apparatus using UL-1, and furthermore,the base station apparatus can transmit, using DL-2-1, DL-2-2 andDL-2-3, the ACK/NACK for information (uplink data) transmitted by themobile station apparatus transmitted using UL-2.

Here, the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 6A can also beregarded as a mobile communication system that divides a DL system bandhaving a bandwidth of 100 MHz into multiple carrier components (consistsof multiple carrier component groups) such that the DL system bandcorresponds to the number (two) of carrier components each having abandwidth of 20 MHz constituting the UL system band. The DL system bandis constituted of the same number of carrier component groups as thecarrier components constituting the UL system band, and thus it ispossible to simplify the correspondence between each of the carriercomponents constituting the UL system band and the carrier componentgroup (consists of multiple carrier components) constituting the DLsystem band, thereby enabling efficient communication between the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus. In other words, inthe mobile communication system shown in FIG. 6A, when the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate with each otherusing the wider system band consists of carrier components, the DLsystem band is constituted of multiple carrier component groups (forexample, the DL system band is constituted of two carrier componentgroups) according to the number (for example, two) of carrier componentsconstituting the UL system band, and it is possible to perform acommunication such that each of the carrier components constituting theUL system band corresponds to each of the carrier component groupsconstituting the DL system band (for example, the carrier componentsconstituting the UL system band correspond to the carrier componentgroups constituting the DL system band in a direction so as to increasetheir frequencies).

Likewise, FIG. 6B shows a mobile communication system in which abandwidth (DL system band) of a frequency band used in the downlinkcommunication is 80 MHz and a bandwidth (UL system band) of a frequencyband used in the uplink communication is 60 MHz. In the mobilecommunication system shown in FIG. 6B, the DL system band is constitutedof two carrier components (DL-1 and DL-2) each having a bandwidth of 20MHz and a carrier component group (DL-3) having a bandwidth of 40 MHz,and the carrier component group (DL-3) having a bandwidth of 40 MHz isfurther constituted of two carrier components (DL-3-1, and DL-3-2) eachhaving a bandwidth of 20 MHz. In other words, the DL system band isconstituted of two carrier components (DL-1 and Dl-2) and one carriercomponent group (DL-3).

The base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus cancommunicate with each other (transmission and reception of information)such that each of the carrier components (UL-1, UL-2 and UL-3)constituting the UL system band corresponds to the carrier components(DL-1, DL-2 and DL-3 (DL-3-1 and DL-3-2)). For example, the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate with each othersuch that DL-1, DL-2 and DL-3-1 and DL-3-2 correspond to UL-1, UL-2 andUL-3, respectively; the mobile station apparatus can transmit, usingUL-1, the ACK/NACK for information (downlink data) transmitted by thebase station apparatus using DL-1 and further the mobile stationapparatus transmits, using UL-3, the ACK/NACK for information (downlinkdata) transmitted by the base station apparatus using DL-3-1 and DL-3-2.Moreover, for example, the base station apparatus can transmit, usingDL-1, the ACK/NACK for information (uplink data) transmitted by themobile station apparatus using UL-1, and the base station apparatus cantransmit, using DL-3-1 and DL-3-2, the ACK/NACK for information (uplinkdata) transmitted by the mobile station apparatus using UL-3.

Likewise, the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 6B can also beregarded as a mobile communication system that divides a DL system bandhaving a bandwidth of 80 MHz into multiple carrier components and acarrier component group (consists of multiple carrier components and acarrier component group) such that the DL system band corresponds to thenumber (three) of carrier components each having a bandwidth of 20 MHzconstituting the UL system band. The DL system band is constituted ofthe same number of carrier components as the carrier componentsconstituting the UL system band, and thus it is possible to simplify thecorrespondence between each of the carrier components constituting theUL system band and the carrier component group, thereby enablingefficient communication between the base station apparatus and themobile station apparatus.

In other words, in the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 6B,when the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatuscommunicate with each other using the wider system band consists ofcarrier components, the DL system band is constituted of multiplecarrier components and a carrier component group (for example, the DLsystem band is constituted of two carrier components and one carriercomponent group) according to the number (for example, three) of thecarrier components constituting the UL system band, and it is possibleto perform communication such that each of the carrier componentsconstituting the UL system band corresponds to each of the carriercomponents and a carrier component group including multiple carriercomponents constituting the DL system band (for example, the carriercomponents constituting the UL system band correspond to the carriercomponents and a carrier component group including multiple carriercomponents constituting the DL system band in a direction so as toincrease their frequencies).

As described above, also in the mobile communication system shown inFIGS. 6A and 6B, how the carrier components and the carrier componentgroup constituting the DL system band correspond to the carriercomponents constituting the UL system band can be previously definedsuch as by specifications. Also, a notification of information (carriercomponent group correspondence information) as to how the carriercomponents and the carrier component group constituting the DL systemband correspond to the carrier components constituting the UL systemband may be given by the base station apparatus to the mobile stationapparatus. The base station apparatus transmits, to the mobile stationapparatus, the carrier component group correspondence information usingthe broadcast channel (broadcast signal) or the RRC signaling, and thusit is possible to set, to the mobile station apparatus, the carriercomponent group correspondence information cell-specifically or thecarrier component group correspondence information the mobile stationapparatus-dedicatedly.

Here, in the mobile communication system of the first embodiment, themobile station apparatus can perform communication using one combinationof the downlink carrier component and the uplink carrier component amongcombinations of downlink carrier component groups and the uplink carriercomponents which correspond to each other so that the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate with each other.A description will be given with reference to the mobile communicationsystem shown in FIG. 6A; the mobile station apparatus can performcommunication using one combination of the carrier components amongcombinations of the carrier components, that is, DL-1-1 and UL-1 withinthe carrier component group DL-1, DL-1-2 and UL-1 within the carriercomponent group DL-1, DL-2-1 and UL-2 within the carrier component groupDL-2, DL-2-2 and UL-2 within the carrier component group DL-2, DL-2-3and UL-2 within the carrier component group DL-2. Here, one combinationof the carrier components used by the mobile station apparatus forcommunication may vary for each mobile station apparatus present withinthe mobile communication system; the base station apparatus cancommunicate with each of the mobile station apparatuses usingcombinations of the carrier components that vary for each mobile stationapparatus (one combination of carrier components that varies for eachmobile station apparatus).

Furthermore, for a specific mobile station apparatus among mobilestation apparatuses that perform communication using one of combinationsof corresponding carrier components, the number of the downlink carriercomponents corresponding to the uplink carrier components can be limitedto be one within the downlink carrier component group (the combinationsof the carrier components that can perform communication can belimited). A description will be given with reference to the mobilecommunication system shown in FIG. 6A; the combinations of the carriercomponents that can perform communication with a specific mobile stationapparatus among mobile station apparatuses that perform communicationusing combinations of the carrier components, that is, DL-1-1 and UL-1within the carrier component group DL-1, DL-1-2 and UL-1 within thecarrier component group DL-1, DL-2-1 and UL-2 within the carriercomponent group DL-2, DL-2-2 and UL-2 within the carrier component groupDL-2, DL-2-3 and UL-2 within the carrier component group DL-2 can belimited to only one combination of carrier components within each of thecarrier component groups (for example, DL-1-1 and UL-1, DL-2-1 andUL-2).

As described above, the combinations of the downlink carrier componentsand the uplink carrier components that correspond to each other so thatthe mobile station apparatus performs communication are limited suchthat one-to-one combination is present within the carrier componentgroup, and thus it is possible to flexibly operate a conventional mobilestation apparatus (above-described specific mobile station apparatusamong mobile station apparatuses that perform communication using onecombination of carrier components, for example, a mobile stationapparatus that uses a frequency band having a bandwidth of 20 MHz toperform communication) on an mobile communication system that performscommunication using a wider system band (for example, a frequency bandhaving a bandwidth of 100 MHz), with the result that the frequency bandcan be efficiently used.

Based on the above description, how the LTE-A (LTE-A capable) mobilestation apparatus and the LTE (LTE-capable) mobile station apparatusoperate will be described in the first embodiment.

For example, in the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5A, afrequency band (UL system band: 100 MHz) used in the uplinkcommunication and a frequency band (DL system band: 100 MHz) used in thedownlink communication are respectively consists of five carriercomponents each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz, and it is possible tooperate the LTE-A mobile station apparatus (it is possible to operatethe LTE-A mobile station apparatus on a full system) such that each ofthe carrier components constituting the UL system band corresponds toone of the carrier components constituting the DL system band (forexample, DL-1, DL-2, DL-3, DL-4 and DL-5 correspond to UL-1, UL-2, UL-3,UL-4 and UL-5, respectively).

Furthermore, in the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5A, one ofcombinations of five carrier components constituting the frequency band(UL system band: 100 MHz) used in the uplink communication and fivecarrier components constituting the frequency band (DL system band: 100MHz) used in the downlink communication is used (for example, DL-1 andUL-1 are used), and thus it is possible to operate the LTE mobilestation apparatus having capability of performing communication using afrequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 20 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20MHz (it is possible to operate the LTE mobile station apparatus on asubsystem). Here, one combination of the carrier components used variesfor each mobile station apparatus; the base station apparatus cancommunicate with each of, for example, a mobile station apparatus usingDL-1 and UL-1, a mobile station apparatus using DL-2 and UL-2, a mobilestation apparatus using DL-3 and UL-3, a mobile station apparatus usingDL-4 and UL-4 and a mobile station apparatus using DL-5 and UL-5.

Likewise, as shown in FIG. 5B, a frequency band (UL system band: 40 MHz)used in the uplink communication is constituted of two carriercomponents each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz, and a frequency band (DLsystem band: 100 MHz) used in the downlink communication is constitutedof two carrier components having a bandwidth of 40 MHz and a bandwidthof 60 MHz, and it is possible to operate the LTE-A mobile stationapparatus (it is possible to operate the LTE-A mobile station apparatuson a full system) such that each of the carrier components constitutingthe UL system band corresponds to one of the carrier componentsconstituting the DL system band (for example, DL-1 and DL-2 correspondto UL-1 and UL-2, respectively).

Furthermore, in the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5B, one ofcombinations of two carrier components constituting the frequency band(UL system band: 40 MHz) used in the uplink communication and twocarrier components constituting the frequency band (DL system band: 100MHz) used in the downlink communication is used (for example, DL-1 andUL-1 are used), and thus it is possible to operate the LTE-A mobilestation apparatus having capability of performing communication using afrequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 40 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20MHz (it is possible to operate the LTE-A mobile station apparatus on asubsystem). Here, one combination of the carrier components used variesfor each mobile station apparatus; the base station apparatus cancommunicate with each of, for example, a mobile station apparatus thatuses DL-1 and UL-1, and having capability of performing communicationusing a frequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 40 MHz and a bandwidth ofUL: 20 MHz, and a mobile station apparatus that uses DL-2 and UL-2, andhaving capability of performing communication using a frequency band ofa bandwidth of DL: 60 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20 MHz.

Likewise, as shown in FIG. 5C, a frequency band (UL system band: 60 MHz)used in the uplink communication is constituted of three carriercomponents each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz, and a frequency band (DLsystem band: 80 MHz) used in the downlink communication is constitutedof three carrier components having a bandwidth of 20 MHz, a bandwidth of20 MHz and a bandwidth of 40 MHz, and it is possible to operate theLTE-A mobile station apparatus (it is possible to operate the LTE-Amobile station apparatus on a full system) such that each of the carriercomponents constituting the UL system band corresponds to one of thecarrier components constituting the DL system band (for example, DL-1,DL-2 and DL-3 correspond to UL-1, UL-2 and UL-3, respectively).

Furthermore, in the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5C, one ofcombinations of three carrier components constituting the frequency band(UL system band: 60 MHz) used in the uplink communication and threecarrier components constituting the frequency band (DL system band: 100MHz) used in the downlink communication is used (for example, DL-1 andUL-1 are used), and thus it is possible to operate the LTE mobilestation apparatus having capability of performing communication using afrequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 20 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20MHz (it is possible to operate the LTE mobile station apparatus on asubsystem). Here, one combination of the carrier components used variesfor each mobile station apparatus; the base station apparatus cancommunicate with each of, for example, a mobile station apparatus thatuses DL-1 and UL-1, and having capability of performing communicationusing a frequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 20 MHz and a bandwidth ofUL: 20 MHz, a mobile station apparatus that uses DL-2 and UL-2, andhaving capability of performing communication using a frequency band ofa bandwidth of DL: 20 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20 MHz, and a mobilestation apparatus that uses DL-3 and UL-3, and having capability ofperforming communication using a frequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 40MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20 MHz.

Likewise, as shown in FIG. 6A, a frequency band (UL system band: 40 MHz)used in the uplink communication is constituted of two carriercomponents each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz, a frequency band (DLsystem band: 100 MHz) used in the downlink communication is constitutedof five carrier components each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz and carriercomponent groups of 40 MHz and 60 MHz are formed, and thus it ispossible to operate the LTE-A mobile station apparatus using a frequencyband having a bandwidth of DL: 100 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 40 MHz (itis possible to operate the LTE-A mobile station apparatus on a fullsystem) such that each of the carrier components constituting the ULsystem band corresponds to one of the carrier component groupsconstituting the DL system band (for example, DL-1 and DL-2 correspondto UL-1 and UL-2, respectively).

Furthermore, in the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 6A, onecombination of the downlink carrier component and the uplink carriercomponent, among two carrier components constituting the frequency band(UL system band: 40 MHz) used in the uplink communication and fivecarrier components included in two carrier component groups constitutingthe frequency band (DL system band: 100 MHz) used in the downlinkcommunication, is used (for example, DL-1 and UL-1 or DL-2-1 and UL-2are used), and thus it is possible to operate the LTE mobile stationapparatus having capability of performing communication using afrequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 20 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20MHz (it is possible to operate the LTE mobile station apparatus on asubsystem). Here, one combination of the carrier components used variesfor each mobile station apparatus; the base station apparatus cancommunicate with each of, for example, an LTE mobile station apparatusthat uses DL-1-1 and UL-1 to perform communication and an LTE mobilestation apparatus that uses DL-2-1 and UL-2 to perform communication.

Furthermore, a combination of the carrier components other than any oneof combinations of the carrier components included in the uplink carriercomponents and the downlink carrier component groups used for LTE, isused (for example, DL-1-2 and UL-1 or DL-2-2 and UL-2-3 are used), andthus it is possible to operate the LTE-A mobile station apparatus havingcapability of performing communication using a frequency band of abandwidth of DL: 20 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20 MHz. Here, onecombination of the carrier components used varies for each mobilestation apparatus; the base station apparatus can communicate with eachof, for example, an LTE-A mobile station apparatus that uses DL-1-2 andUL-1 to perform communication, an LTE-A mobile station apparatus thatuses DL-2-2 and UL-2 to perform communication and an LTE-A mobilestation apparatus that uses DL-2-3 and UL-2 to perform communication.Here, the LTE-A mobile station apparatus can be regarded as a mobilestation apparatus that can perform communication on the uplink carriercomponent combined with multiple downlink carrier components (carriercomponent group). The LTE mobile station apparatus can be regarded as amobile station apparatus that can perform communication on the uplinkcarrier component combined with one downlink carrier component.

Likewise, as shown in FIG. 6B, a frequency band (UL system band: 60 MHz)used in the uplink communication is constituted of three carriercomponents each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz, a frequency band (DLsystem band: 80 MHz) used in the downlink communication is constitutedof four carrier components each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz, andcarrier components or carrier component groups of 20 MHz, 20 MHz and 40MHz are formed, and thus it is possible to operate the LTE-A mobilestation apparatus using a frequency band having a bandwidth of DL: 80MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 60 MHz (it is possible to operate the LTE-Amobile station apparatus on a full system) such that each of the carriercomponents constituting the UL system band corresponds to one of thecarrier components or the carrier component groups constituting the DLsystem band (for example, DL-1, DL-2 and DL-3 correspond to UL-1, UL-2and UL-3, respectively).

Furthermore, in the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 6B, one ofcombinations of three carrier components constituting the frequency band(UL system band: 60 MHz) used in the uplink communication and twocarrier components and carrier components included in one carriercomponent group constituting the frequency band (DL system band: 80 MHz)used in the downlink communication, is used (for example, DL-3-1 andUL-3 are used), and thus it is possible to operate the LTE mobilestation apparatus having capability of performing communication using afrequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 20 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20MHz (it is possible to operate the LTE mobile station apparatus on asubsystem). Here, one combination of the carrier components used variesfor each mobile station apparatus; the base station apparatus cancommunicate with each of, for example, a mobile station apparatus thatuses DL-1 and UL-1 to perform communication, a mobile station apparatusthat uses DL-2 and UL-2 to perform communication and a mobile stationapparatus that uses DL-3-1 and UL-3 to perform communication.

Furthermore, a combination of the carrier components other than any oneof combinations of the carrier components included in the uplink carriercomponents and the downlink carrier component groups used for LTE, isused (for example, DL-3-2 and UL-3 are used), and thus it is possible tooperate the LTE-A mobile station apparatus having capability ofperforming communication using a frequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 20MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20 MHz. Here, one combination of carriercomponents used varies for each mobile station apparatus; the basestation apparatus can communicate with each of, for example, an LTE-Amobile station apparatus that uses DL-3-1 and UL-3 to performcommunication and an LTE-A mobile station apparatus that uses DL-3-2 andUL-3 to perform communication. Here, the LTE-A mobile station apparatuscan be regarded as a mobile station apparatus that can performcommunication on the uplink carrier component combined with multipledownlink carrier components (carrier component group). The LTE mobilestation apparatus can be regarded as a mobile station apparatus that canperform communication on the uplink carrier component combined with onedownlink carrier component.

Here, it is also possible to simultaneously operate the systems of FIGS.5B and 6A or the systems of FIGS. 5C and 6B as a system. Specifically,on the system of FIG. 6A, the base station apparatus can communicatewith each of, for example, a mobile station apparatus that uses DL-1 andUL-1, and having capability of performing communication using afrequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 40 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20MHz and a mobile station apparatus that uses DL-2 and UL-2, and havingcapability of performing communication using a frequency band of abandwidth of DL: 60 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20 MHz. On the system ofFIG. 6B, the base station apparatus can communicate with each of, forexample, a mobile station apparatus that uses DL-1 and UL-1, and havingcapability of performing communication using a frequency band of abandwidth of DL: 20 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20 MHz, a mobile stationapparatus that uses DL-2 and UL-2, and having a bandwidth of DL: 20 MHzand a bandwidth of UL: 20 MHz and a mobile station apparatus that usesDL-3 and UL-3, and having capability of performing communication using afrequency band of a bandwidth of DL: 40 MHz and a bandwidth of UL: 20MHz.

Furthermore, in the mobile communication system of the first embodiment,a mobile station apparatus having capability of performing communicationusing a wider system band (DL system band and UL system band) consistsof carrier components, can perform communication using one ofcorresponding combinations of carrier components. In other words, amobile station apparatus having capability of performing communicationusing a wider system band, can operate as a mobile station apparatushaving capability of performing communication using one combination ofcarrier components. In other words, a mobile station apparatus that canoperate using a wider system band (DL system band and UL system band),can perform communication using only one combination of the carriercomponents by recognizing that communication is performed using onecombination of corresponding carrier components.

For example, in the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 6A, amobile station apparatus that can perform communication using the DLsystem band and the UL system band can operate, as a mobile stationapparatus performing communication with DL-1-1 and UL-1, by recognizingthat communication is performed on DL-1-1 and UL-1. Specifically, anLTE-A mobile station apparatus that can perform communication using theDL system band and the UL system band can operate, as an LTE mobilestation apparatus using DL-1-1 and UL-1, by recognizing thatcommunication is performed on DL-1-1 and UL-1 (it is possible to operatethe LTE-A mobile station apparatus on a subsystem as an LTE mobilestation apparatus).

Here, control information (control signal) for to be recognized themobile station apparatus as performed communication using onecombination of corresponding carrier components (for example, DL-1-1 andUL-1), can be transmitted by the base station apparatus. Specifically,the base station apparatus transmits, the LTE-A mobile stationapparatus, the control information (control signal) for performingcommunication using a limited frequency band (for example, DL-1-1 andUL-1), and the LTE-A mobile station apparatus that has received thesignal, can perform communication as the LTE mobile station apparatususing the limited frequency band (for example, DL-1-1 and UL-1) (thebase station apparatus can operate the LTE-A mobile station apparatus onthe subsystem as the LTE mobile station apparatus by the controlsignal).

As described above, in the first embodiment, when the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate with each otherusing the wider system band (UL system band and DL system band) consistsof the carrier components and/or the carrier component groups, thecommunication is performed such that each of multiple carrier componentsconstituting the frequency band (UL system band) used in the uplinkcommunication corresponds to each of the carrier components and/or thecarrier component groups constituting the frequency band (DL systemband) used in the downlink communication. Thus, the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus can efficiently communicatewith each other without increasing the control information (controlsignal) from the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

The mobile station apparatuses (having different capabilities) areoperated using any one of combinations of corresponding carrier consistsof the UL system band and the carrier components and/or the carriercomponent groups of the DL system band, and thus a mobile stationapparatus having capability of performing communication using a widerfrequency band (for example, a frequency band having a bandwidth of 100MHz) and a mobile station apparatus having capability of performingcommunication using a narrower frequency band (for example, a frequencyband having a bandwidth of 20 MHz) can be flexibly coexisted with thesame frequency band, which can realize an efficient mobile communicationsystem.

Second Embodiment

A second embodiment of the present invention will be described. Thesecond embodiment of the present invention can be applied to the mobilecommunication system in which, as described in the first embodiment, thedownlink system band is constituted of multiple carrier componentsand/or carrier component groups and the uplink system band isconstituted of multiple carrier components, and which performscommunication such that each of the downlink carrier components and/orthe carrier component groups correspond to each of the uplink carriercomponents, the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus.Here, the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 6A will be describedas an example; the second embodiment can be applied to all mobilecommunication systems, the base station apparatuses and the mobilestation apparatuses to which the first embodiment can be applied.

The same mobile communication system as that shown in FIG. 6A is shownin FIG. 7. As described in the first embodiment, in the mobilecommunication system shown in FIG. 7, the base station apparatus and themobile station apparatus communicate with each other such that each ofmultiple carrier components constituting the uplink system bandcorresponds to one of multiple carrier component groups includingmultiple carrier components constituting the downlink system band.

FIG. 7 shows that the base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus communicate with each other such that two carrier components(UL-1: 20 MHz, UL-2: 20 MHz) constituting the UL system band (100 MHz)correspond to two carrier component groups (DL-1: 40 MHz, DL-2: 60 MHz)constituting the DL system band (100 MHz), that is, DL-1 and DL-2correspond to UL-1 and UL-2, respectively. Here, the carrier componentgroup is constituted of multiple carrier components; as shown in FIG. 7,the carrier component group DL-1 is constituted of the carriercomponents DL-1-1 and DL-1-2, and the carrier component group DL-2 isconstituted of the carrier components DL-2-1, DL-2-2 and DL-2-3.Although, in the second embodiment, as an example of the combination ofthe carrier component and/or the carrier component group, this type ofcombination will be described below, the second embodiment can beapplied to any combination of the carrier component and/or the carriercomponent group. For example, the second embodiment can be applied tothe mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5A.

In the following description of the second embodiment, for clarificationof description, the frequency band (DL system band) used in the downlinkcommunication is expressed to be constituted of multiple carriercomponent groups including multiple carrier components (consists ofmultiple carrier components), whereas, when the second embodiment isapplied to the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 5A, thefrequency band (DL system band) used in the downlink communication isexpressed to be constituted of multiple carrier components.

In the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 7, a physical uplinkshared channel (hereinafter referred to as a PUSCH) represented by anoblique line extending in an upper right-hand direction and a physicaluplink control channel (hereinafter referred to as a PUCCH) representedby an oblique line extending in a lower right-hand direction areallocated on the UL system band used in the uplink communication fromthe mobile station apparatus to the base station apparatus. Here, thePUSCH and the PUCCH are allocated on each of the carrier components(UL-1 and UL-2) constituting the UL system band. In FIG. 7, the PUCCHsare separately allocated on end portions (edge portions) of each of thecarrier components.

As shown in FIG. 7, in the mobile communication system of the secondembodiment, the number of the PUSCHs used to transmit data (hereinafterdata refers to uplink data (UL-SCH) and/or control data) from the mobilestation apparatus to the base station apparatus and the total number ofthe PUCCHs used to transmit the control data are equal to the number ofthe carrier components constituting the UL system band, and they varyaccording to the number of the carrier components constituting the ULsystem band.

The operation of the base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus will be described below. The base station apparatus transmits,to the mobile station apparatus, the uplink transmission permissionsignal including resources allocation information for a physicaldownlink shared channel (PDSCH), resources allocation information forthe physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) using a physical downlinkcontrol channel (PDCCH) on each of multiple downlink carrier componentgroups (DL-1 and DL-2) consists of the multiple carrier components.Specifically, the base station apparatus performs resources allocationfor the PDSCH and transmission of the uplink transmission permissionsignal using, in the same subframe, the same number of the PDCCHs as thenumber of the multiple downlink carrier component groups. The mobilestation apparatus that has received the uplink transmission permissionsignal, transmits the data according to the resources allocationinformation included in the uplink transmission permission signal usingthe PUSCH on each of the corresponding uplink carrier components (UL-1and UL-2). Specifically, the mobile station apparatus can transmit thesame number of the PUSCHs (data) as the number of the multiple uplinkcarrier components in the same subframe. In other words, the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus can transmit andreceive the same number of the uplink transport channels (UL-SCH) as themultiple downlink carrier component groups or the multiple uplinkcarrier components. The base station apparatus transmits, using thePHICH on each of the multiple corresponding downlink carrier componentgroups, the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the uplink data transmitted from themobile station apparatus. That is, the base station apparatus cantransmit, in the same subframe, the same number of the ACK/NACKs(PHICHs) of HARQ as the multiple downlink carrier component groupscorresponding to the multiple uplink carrier components.

As described above, in the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 7,the base station apparatus transmits the uplink transmission permissionsignal using the PDCCH on DL-1 (in other words, allocated on DL-1), andthe mobile station apparatus that has received the signal, transmits thedata using the PUSCH on UL-1 (in other words, allocated on UL-1)corresponding to DL-1. Likewise, the base station apparatus transmitsthe uplink transmission permission signal using the PDCCH on DL-2 (inother words, allocated on DL-2), and the mobile station apparatus thathas received the signal, transmits the data using the PUSCH on UL-2 (inother words, allocated on UL-2) corresponding to DL-2. The base stationapparatus transmits the uplink transmission permission signal using thePDCCHs on DL-1 and DL-2 in the same subframe; the mobile stationapparatus transmits the data using the PUSCHs of corresponding UL-1 andUL-2 in the same subframe.

Furthermore, the base station apparatus transmits, to the mobile stationapparatus, the downlink data (for example, downlink user data) using thePDCCH on each of the multiple downlink carrier component groups (DL-1and DL-2) consists of multiple carrier components. Specifically, thebase station apparatus can transmit, in the same subframe, the samenumber of the PDSCHs (the downlink data) as the number of the downlinkcarrier component groups. The mobile station apparatus that has receivedthe downlink data transmitted from the base station apparatus on each ofthe multiple downlink carrier component groups (DL-1 and DL-2),transmits the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlink data using the PUCCH oneach of the corresponding uplink carrier components (UL-1 and UL-2).That is, the mobile station apparatus can transmit, in the samesubframe, the same number of the ACK/NACKs as the number of the multipleuplink carrier components. In other words, the base station apparatusand the mobile station apparatus can transmit and receive the samenumber of the downlink transport channels (UL-SCH) as the multipledownlink carrier component groups or the multiple uplink carriercomponents.

As described above, in the mobile communication system shown in FIG. 7,the base station apparatus transmits the downlink data using the PDSCHon DL-1 (in other words, allocated on DL-1), and the mobile stationapparatus transmits the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlink data using thePUCCH on UL-1 (in other words, allocated on UL-1) corresponding to DL-1.Likewise, the base station apparatus transmits the downlink data usingthe PDSCH on DL-2 (in other words, allocated on DL-2), and the mobilestation apparatus transmits the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlink datausing the PUCCH on UL-2 (in other words, allocated on UL-2)corresponding to DL-2. The base station apparatus transmits the downlinkdata using the PDSCH on DL-1 and DL-2 in the same subframe, and themobile station apparatus transmits the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlinkdata using the PUCCH on corresponding UL-1 and UL-2 in the samesubframe.

Here, with reference to FIG. 8, a description will be given of a casewhere the base station apparatus performs resources allocation for thePUSCH on the uplink carrier components (UL-1 and/or UL-2) when themobile station apparatus transmits the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlinkdata using the PUCCH on each of the uplink carrier components (UL-1 andUL-2) corresponding to the multiple downlink carrier component groups(DL-1 and DL-2). For clarification of description, in FIG. 8, one PUCCHis shown in each of the uplink carrier components (UL-1 and UL-2). (FIG.8 illustrates the uplink of a mobile station apparatus in a given slot.In the entire system, the PUCCHs are separately allocated on endportions (edge portions) of each of the uplink carrier components.)

When the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlink data transmitted from thebase station apparatus on each of the multiple downlink carriercomponent groups (DL-1 and DL-2) is transmitted using the PUCCH on eachof the corresponding uplink carrier components (UL-1 and UL-2), if thebase station apparatus performs resources allocation for the PUSCH onthe uplink carrier components (UL-1 and/or UL-2), the mobile stationapparatus transmits the ACK/NACK using the allocated resources of thePUSCH. Specifically, the base station apparatus allocates the resourcesof the PUSCH for transmitting the uplink data (UL-SCH) on each of themultiple downlink carrier component groups (DL-1 and DL-2) using theuplink transmission permission signal, and the mobile station apparatusthat has received the signal, transmits the ACK/NACK that attempted tobe transmitted by the PUCCH on each of the corresponding uplink carriercomponents (UL-1 and UL-2) using the resources of the PUSCH allocated bythe uplink transmission permission signal.

Here, a different format is defined as the uplink transmissionpermission signal used in each of the multiple downlink carriercomponent groups (DL-1 and DL-2), and thus it is possible to allocatethe resources of the PUSCH for transmitting the uplink data (UL-SCH)using the multiple uplink carrier components.

As described above, when the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlink datatransmitted on DL-1 from the base station apparatus is transmitted usingthe PUCCH on the corresponding UL-1, if the base station apparatusperforms resources allocation for the PUSCH on UL-1, the mobile stationapparatus transmits, using the PUSCH on UL-1, the ACK/NACK thatattempted to be transmitted using the PUCCH on UL-1. Likewise, when theACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlink data transmitted on DL-2 from the basestation apparatus is transmitted using the PUCCH on the correspondingUL-2, if the base station apparatus performs resources allocation forthe PUSCH on UL-2, the mobile station apparatus transmits, using thePUSCH on UL-2, the ACK/NACK that attempted to be transmitted using thePUCCH on UL-2. The base station apparatus allocates, in the samesubframe, the resources of the PUSCH on UL-1 and UL-2 by the uplinktransmission permission signal; the mobile station apparatus cantransmit in the same subframe, using the resources of the PUSCHallocated by the uplink transmission permission signal, the ACK/NACKthat attempted to be transmitted using the PUCCH on UL-1 and UL-2. Here,the mobile station apparatus can transmit either the ACK/NACK only orboth the uplink data and the ACK/NACK using the PUSCH on the uplinkcarrier components (UL-1 and/or UL-2).

An arrow shown in FIG. 8 and extending from the resources of the PUCCHto the resources of the PUSCH indicates that the mobile stationapparatus attempted to transmit the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlinkdata using the PUCCH on each of the uplink carrier components (UL-1 andUL-2), transmits the ACK/NACK using the resources of the PUSCH allocatedwithin the same carrier component as the carrier component where thePUCCH is allocated for transmitting the ACK/NACK, according to theresources allocation for the PUSCH from the base station apparatus. Thatis, in case that the resources of the PUSCH is allocated by the basestation apparatus on the carrier component that needs to transmit theACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlink data, the mobile station apparatustransmits, to the base station apparatus, the ACK/NACK using theallocated resources of the PUSCH.

With reference back to FIG. 7, the base station apparatus, using any oneof the multiple downlink carrier component groups (DL-1 and DL-2)consists of the multiple carrier components, allocates by a radioresource control signal (hereinafter referred to as RRC signaling), tothe mobile station apparatus, the resources of a physical uplink controlchannel (hereinafter referred to as PUCCH) used to transmit the channelstate information and/or the scheduling request. The mobile stationapparatus that has received the signal transmit the channel stateinformation and/or the scheduling request using the allocated PUCCH onthe uplink carrier components (UL-1 and/or UL-2). In other words, thebase station apparatus can allocate the resources of the PUCCH on themultiple uplink carrier components (UL-1 and UL-2) using the RRCsignaling transmitted by any one of multiple downlink carrier componentgroups (DL-1 and DL-2).

Here, the base station apparatus can transmit, included in the RRCsignaling, an uplink carrier component indication information used forindicating which of the uplink carrier components (UL-1 and/or UL-2) themobile station apparatus uses to transmit the channel state informationand/or the scheduling request. In other words, the base stationapparatus can transmit, included in the RRC signaling, the uplinkcarrier component indication information used for indicating which ofthe PUCCH on UL-1, the PUCCH on UL-2 and the PUCCHs on UL-1 and UL-2 themobile station apparatus uses to transmit the channel state informationand/or the scheduling request. Here, the uplink carrier componentindication information may simply and explicitly indicate the number ofthe carrier component or may implicitly indicate serial numbers that arenumbered irrespective of the carrier components and that are given tothe frequency resources of each of the PUCCHs. That is, the mobilestation apparatus transmits, using the PUCCH on the uplink carriercomponents (UL-1 and/or UL-2), the channel state information and/or thescheduling request according to the uplink carrier component indicationinformation included in the RRC signaling transmitted by any one of themultiple downlink carrier component groups (DL-1 and DL-2) consists ofthe multiple carrier components. Here, one PUCCH can be allocated toeach of the uplink carrier components, and multiple PUCCHs can bespecified to be simultaneously used when the carrier components aredifferent.

In the mobile station apparatus shown in FIG. 7, the base stationapparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, the RRC signalingincluding the uplink carrier component indication information usingeither of DL-1 and DL-2, and the mobile station apparatus that hasreceived the signal, transmits, to the base station apparatus, thechannel state information and/or the scheduling request using the PUCCHon either of UL-1 and UL-2 or UL-1 and UL-2.

Here, with reference to FIG. 8, a description will be given of a casewhere the base station apparatus performs resources allocation on thePUSCH on the corresponding uplink carrier component (UL-1 and/or UL-2)when the mobile station apparatus transmits the channel stateinformation using the PUCCH on the uplink carrier component (UL-1 and/orUL-2) (in the same subframe as that to be transmitted).

As shown in FIG. 8, when the mobile station apparatus transmits thechannel state information using the PUCCH on the uplink carriercomponent (UL-1 and/or UL-2) according to the RRC signaling from thebase station apparatus, if the base station apparatus performs resourcesallocation for the PUSCH on the corresponding uplink carrier component(UL-1 and/or UL-2), the mobile station apparatus transmits the channelstate information using the allocated PUSCH. Specifically, when, in thesame subframe as that in which the channel state information is to betransmitted using the PUCCH on UL-1, the transmission using the PUSCH onUL-1 is indicated by the uplink transmission permission signal from thebase station apparatus, the mobile station apparatus transmits thechannel state information using the resources of the PUSCH on UL-1allocated by the uplink transmission permission signal, but does nottransmit the channel state information using the PUCCH on UL-1.

Likewise, when, in the same subframe as that in which the channel stateinformation is to be transmitted using the PUCCH on UL-2, thetransmission using the PUSCH on UL-2 is indicated by the uplinktransmission permission signal from the base station apparatus, themobile station apparatus transmits the channel state information usingthe resources of the PUSCH on UL-2 allocated by the uplink transmissionpermission signal, but does not transmit the channel state informationusing the PUCCH on UL-2. Furthermore, when, in the same subframe as thatin which the channel state information is to be transmitted using thePUCCH on UL-1 and UL-2, the transmission using the PUSCH on UL-1 isindicated by the uplink transmission permission signal from the basestation apparatus, the mobile station apparatus transmits the channelstate information using the resources of the PUSCH on UL-1 allocated bythe uplink transmission permission signal and the resources of the PUCCHon UL-2 allocated by the RRC signaling, but does not transmit thechannel state information using the PUCCH on UL-1.

Here, the mobile station apparatus transmits the channel stateinformation using the PUSCH on UL-1 and the PUCCH on UL-2 in the samesubframe. Likewise, when, in the same subframe as that in which thechannel state information is to be transmitted using the PUCCH on UL-1and UL-2 by the RRC signaling from the base station apparatus, thetransmission using the PUSCH on UL-2 is indicated by the uplinktransmission permission signal from the base station apparatus, themobile station apparatus transmits the channel state information usingthe resources of the PUCCH on UL-1 allocated by the RRC signaling andthe resources of the PUSCH on UL-2 allocated by the uplink transmissionpermission signal, but does not transmit the channel state informationon the PUCCH on UL-2. Here, the mobile station apparatus transmits thechannel state information using the PUCCH on UL-1 and the PUSCH on UL-2in the same subframe.

Moreover, when, in the same subframe as that in which the channel stateinformation is to be transmitted using the PUCCH on UL-1 and UL-2 by theRRC signaling from the base station apparatus, the transmission usingthe PUSCH on UL-1 and UL-2 is indicated by the uplink transmissionpermission signal from the base station apparatus, the mobile stationapparatus transmits the channel state information using the resources ofthe PUSCH on UL-1 and UL-2 allocated by the uplink transmissionpermission signal, but does not transmit the channel state informationon the PUCCH on UL-1 and UL-2. Here, the mobile station apparatustransmits the channel state information using the PUSCH on UL-1 and UL-2in the same subframe. Here, the mobile station apparatus can transmiteither the channel state information only or both the uplink data andthe channel state information using the PUSCH on each of the uplinkcarrier components (UL-1 and UL-2).

The arrow shown in FIG. 8 and extending from the resources of the PUCCHto the resources of the PUSCH indicates that

the mobile station apparatus that attempted to transmit the channelstate information using the PUCCH on the uplink carrier components (UL-1and/or UL-2), transmit the channel state information using the resourcesof the PUSCH allocated within the same carrier component as the carriercomponent where the PUCCH is allocated for transmitting the channelstate information, according to the resources of the PUSCH allocatedfrom the base station apparatus. That is, in case that the resources ofthe PUSCH is allocated by the base station apparatus on the carriercomponent that needs to transmit the channel state information, themobile station apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, thechannel state information using the allocated resources of the PUSCH.

Here, the channel state information and the scheduling requesttransmitted by the mobile station apparatus to the base stationapparatus using the PUCCH on the uplink carrier components (UL-1 and/orUL-2) will be described in further detail (as described above, it ispossible to transmit the channel state information using either of thePUCCH and the PUSCH on the uplink carrier components (UL-1 and/or UL-2).

The channel state information will first be described. The mobilestation apparatus that has been instructed to transmit the channel stateinformation by the RRC signaling transmitted from the base stationapparatus on any of the multiple downlink carrier component groups (DL-1and DL-2), transmit, to the base station apparatus, the channel stateinformation with respect to the (entire) downlink system band consistsof the multiple carrier component groups using the PUCCH on the uplinkcarrier component (UL-1 and/or UL-2). Specifically, the mobile stationapparatus calculates the channel state information with respect to the(entire) downlink system band (DL system band) consists of the multipledownlink carrier component groups (DL-1 and DL-2), and can perform thetransmission using the PUCCH (PUSCH, as described above, when allocationby the base station apparatus is performed) on the uplink carriercomponent (UL-1 and/or UL-2). In other words, the mobile stationapparatus can transmit the channel state information with respect to the(entire) downlink system band (DL system band) using the PUCCH on atleast one of the uplink carrier components (UL-1 and/or UL-2) accordingto the RRC signaling transmitted by either of the multiple downlinkcarrier component groups (DL-1 and DL-2) from the base stationapparatus. In other words, the mobile station apparatus can transmit thechannel state information with respect to the (entire) downlink systemband (DL system band) using the PUCCH on the multiple uplink carriercomponents (UL-1 and UL-2) according to the RRC signaling transmitted byeither of the multiple downlink carrier component groups (DL-1 and DL-2)from the base station apparatus. That is, the channel state informationtransmitted is required not in the unit of the carrier component but inthe unit of the mobile station apparatus.

The scheduling request will now be described. The mobile stationapparatus that has been instructed the subframes that can transmit thescheduling request by the RRC signaling transmitted from the basestation apparatus on any of the multiple downlink carrier componentgroups (DL-1 and DL-2), can transmit, to the base station apparatus, thescheduling request (request of UL-SCH transmission) with respect to the(entire) uplink system band consists of the multiple carrier componentsusing the PUCCH on the uplink carrier component (UL-1 and/or UL-2). Inother words, the mobile station apparatus can transmit the schedulingrequest with respect to the (entire) uplink system band (DL system band)using the PUCCH on at least one of the uplink carrier components (UL-1and/or UL-2) according to the RRC signaling transmitted by either of themultiple downlink carrier component groups (DL-1 and DL-2) from the basestation apparatus. In other words, the mobile station apparatustransmits the scheduling request with respect to the (entire) uplinksystem band (UL system band) using the PUCCH on the multiple uplinkcarrier components (UL-1 and UL-2) according to the RRC signalingtransmitted by either of the multiple downlink carrier component groups(DL-1 and DL-2) from the base station apparatus. That is, the schedulingrequest transmitted is requested not in the unit of the carriercomponent but in the unit of the mobile station apparatus.

FIGS. 9A to 9D are diagrams that show, based on what has been describedabove, the combinations of the uplink channels (the PUSCH and the PUCCH)on which the mobile station apparatus can transmit the data (uplink data(UL-SCH) and/or control data).

As has been described above, the mobile station apparatus can perform,in the same subframe, PUSCH transmission on UL-1 and PUSCH transmissionon UL-2, PUCCH transmission on UL-1 and PUSCH transmission on UL-2,PUSCH transmission on UL-1 and PUCCH transmission on UL-2 and PUCCHtransmission on UL-1 and PUCCH transmission on UL-2 according to the RRCsignaling and the uplink transmission permission signal from the basestation apparatus. Here, the RRC signaling from the base stationapparatus is transmitted using either of the downlink carrier componentgroups (DL-1 and DL-2). The uplink transmission permission signalscorresponding to the number of the downlink carrier component groups(DL-1 and DL-2 which are also the uplink carrier components (UL-1 andUL-2)) are transmitted.

Each case will be described. FIG. 9A shows that the PUSCH on UL-1 andthe PUSCH on UL-2 are transmitted in the same subframe. The mobilestation apparatus transmits, using the PUSCH on each of thecorresponding uplink carrier components (UL-1 and UL-2), the data(uplink data (UL-SCH) and/or control data) according to the uplinktransmission permission signal transmitted from the base stationapparatus on each of the downlink carrier component groups (DL-1 andDL-2). In other words, the mobile station apparatus transmits, to thebase station apparatus, the data using the PUSCH on UL-1 according tothe uplink transmission permission signal transmitted on DL-1, andtransmits, to the base station apparatus, the data using the PUSCH onUL-2 according to the uplink transmission permission signal transmittedon DL-2.

Also, when the PUCCH on UL-1 and UL-2 is used to transmit the ACK/NACKand/or the channel state information and/or the scheduling request, incase that the base station apparatus gives an instruction to perform thetransmission using the PUSCH on UL-1 and the PUSCH on UL-2 by the uplinktransmission permission signal on DL-1 and DL-2, the data is transmittedusing the PUSCH on UL-1 and the PUSCH on UL-2. Here, the ACK/NACK and/orthe channel state information and/or the scheduling request whichattempted to be transmitted using the PUCCH on UL-1 are transmittedusing the PUSCH on UL-1, and the ACK/NACK and/or the channel stateinformation and/or the scheduling request which attempted to betransmitted using the PUCCH on UL-2 are transmitted using the PUSCH onUL-2.

FIG. 9B shows that the PUCCH on UL-1 and the PUSCH on UL-2 aretransmitted in the same subframe. The mobile station apparatus transmitsthe data according to the uplink transmission permission signaltransmitted on the downlink carrier component group (here, DL-2) usingthe corresponding PUSCH on UL-2. When the PUCCH on UL-1 and/or UL-2 isused to transmit the ACK/NACK and/or the channel state informationand/or the scheduling request, in case that the base station apparatusgives an instruction to perform the transmission using the PUSCH on UL-2by the uplink transmission permission signal on DL-2, the data istransmitted using the PUCCH on UL-1 and/or the PUSCH on UL-2. Here, theACK/NACK and/or the channel state information and/or the schedulingrequest which attempted to be transmitted using the PUCCH on UL-1 aretransmitted using the PUCCH on UL-1, and the ACK/NACK and/or the channelstate information and/or the scheduling request which attempted to betransmitted using the PUCCH on UL-2 are transmitted using the PUSCH onUL-2.

FIG. 9C shows that the PUSCH on UL-1 and the PUCCH on UL-2 aretransmitted in the same subframe. The mobile station apparatus transmitsthe channel state information or the scheduling request using the PUSCHon UL-1 according to the uplink transmission permission signaltransmitted on the downlink carrier component group (here, DL-1). Whenthe PUCCH on UL-1 and/or UL-2 is used to transmit the ACK/NACK and/orthe channel state information and/or the scheduling request, in casethat the base station apparatus gives an instruction to perform thetransmission using the PUSCH on UL-1 by the uplink transmissionpermission signal on DL-1, the data is transmitted using the PUSCH onUL-1 and/or the PUSCH on UL-2. Here, the ACK/NACK and/or the channelstate information and/or the scheduling request which attempted to betransmitted using the PUCCH on UL-1 are transmitted using the PUSCH onUL-1, and the ACK/NACK and/or the channel state information and/or thescheduling request which attempted to be transmitted using the PUCCH onUL-2 are transmitted using the PUCCH on UL-2.

FIG. 9D shows that the PUCCH on UL-1 and the PUCCH on UL-2 aretransmitted in the same subframe. The mobile station apparatustransmits, using the PUCCH on the uplink carrier component (UL-1 and/orUL-2), the channel state information or the scheduling request accordingto the RRC signaling transmitted from the base station apparatus oneither of the downlink carrier component groups (DL-1 and DL-2). Inother words, the mobile station apparatus transmits the channel stateinformation or the scheduling request according the RRC signaling usingthe PUCCH on UL-1 and/or the PUCCH on UL-2. When the resources of thePUSCH are not allocated on UL-1, the mobile station apparatus transmitsthe ACK/NACK and/or the channel state information and/or the schedulingrequest using the PUCCH on UL-1, and when the resources of the PUSCH arenot allocated on UL-2, the mobile station apparatus transmits theACK/NACK and/or the channel state information and/or the schedulingrequest using the PUCCH on UL-2.

A further detailed description will be given. As with FIGS. 9A to 9D,FIGS. 10A to 10D are diagrams that show how the mobile station apparatustransmits the data (uplink data (UL-SCH) and/or control data) using theuplink channels (the PUSCH and the PUCCH). FIGS. 10A to 10D correspondto FIGS. 9A to 9D, respectively.

FIGS. 10A to 10D are diagrams that show how the mobile station apparatustransmit the data using the uplink channels (the PUSCH and the PUCCH) ina subframe #n. As shown in FIGS. 10A to 10D, the subframe #n isconstituted of two slots (here, a slot #a and a slot #a+1), and themobile station apparatus transmit the data allocated on the PUSCH and/orthe PUCCH using one subframe (the same subframe). For example, onesubframe (subframe #n) is 1 ms, and is constituted of two 0.5 ms slots(the slot #a and the slot #a+1). Inter-slot hopping is applied to thePUCCH, and the frequency position of the PUCCH is changed in each slot.Inter-slot hopping may be also applied to the PUSCH. However, a patternshown in FIGS. 9A to 9D is maintained in consideration of a time periodof each slot.

Each case will be described. FIG. 10A corresponding to FIG. 9A, showsthat the PUSCH on UL-1 and the PUSCH on UL-2 are transmitted in the samesubframe. FIG. 10B corresponding to FIG. 9B, shows that the PUCCH onUL-1 and the PUSCH on UL-2 are transmitted in the same subframe. FIG.10C corresponding to FIG. 9C, shows that the PUSCH on UL-1 and the PUCCHon UL-2 are transmitted in the same subframe. FIG. 10D corresponding toFIG. 9D shows that the PUCCH on UL-1 and the PUCCH on UL-2 aretransmitted in the same subframe.

Here, when the mobile station apparatus transmits, in the subframe #n,the information (the ACK/NACK and/or the channel state informationand/or the scheduling information) using the PUCCH on UL-1 and/or UL-2,the mobile station apparatus can perform the transmission while moving(called inter-slot hopping) between the PUCCHs allocated on both endportions (edge portions) of the carrier component (UL-1) correspondingto the two slots (the slot #a and the slot #a+1). In other words, whenthe mobile station apparatus transmits, in the subframe #n, theinformation using the PUCCH on UL-1 and/or UL-2, the mobile stationapparatus can transmit, in the slot #a, the information by using one (inFIG. 10, the PUCCH allocated on the side of a low frequency of UL-1 andthe PUCCH allocated on the side of a high frequency of UL-1) of thePUCCHs allocated in both end portions (edge portions) of the carriercomponent (UL-1 and/or UL-2), and transmit, in the slot #a+1, theinformation by using the other (in FIG. 10, the PUCCH allocated on theside of the high frequency of UL-1 and the PUCCH allocated on the sideof the low frequency of UL-2).

As described above, the mobile station apparatus transmits, to the basestation apparatus, the information (the ACK/NACK and/or the channelstate information and/or the scheduling information) using theinter-slot hopping, and thus it is possible to make the informationtransmitted from the mobile station apparatus to the base stationapparatus more resistant to fluctuations in a propagation path (having adiversity effect) and perform transmission.

In FIGS. 10A to 10D, the mobile station apparatus transmits informationfrom the PUCCH allocated on the side of a low frequency of UL-1 and thePUCCH allocated on the side of a high frequency of UL-2 first; on whichside the PUCCH is allocated to be first used to transmit the informationis different according to the resource allocation on the PUCCH from thebase station apparatus.

As has been described above, in the present embodiment, when the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate with eachother using a wider frequency band (UL system band and DL system band)consists of the carrier components and/or the carrier component groups,the base station apparatus transmits the uplink transmission permissionsignal using each of the multiple downlink carrier component groups (orthe carrier components). The mobile station apparatus that has receivedthe signal, transmits the data (uplink data (UL-SCH) and/or the controldata) using the PUSCH on each of the uplink carrier componentscorresponding to the multiple downlink carrier component groups (or thecarrier components), and thus it is possible to perform communicationsuch that each of the carrier component groups (or the carriercomponents) constituting the downlink system band corresponds to each ofthe carrier components constituting the uplink system band, which makesit possible to perform communication without increasing the controlinformation (control signal) from the base station apparatus to themobile station apparatus.

Moreover, the base station apparatus transmits the RRC signalingincluding the uplink carrier component indication information using anyof the multiple downlink carrier component groups (or the carriercomponents). The mobile station apparatus that has received the signal,transmits, using the PUCCH on the uplink carrier components, the channelstate information or the scheduling information according to the uplinkcarrier component indication information included in the RRC signaling,and thus it is possible to perform communication such that each of thecarrier component groups (or the carrier components) constituting thedownlink system band corresponds to each of the carrier componentsconstituting the uplink system band, which makes it possible to performcommunication without increasing the control information (controlsignal) from the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

As described above, the base station apparatus transmits the uplinktransmission permission signal and/or the RRC signaling using thedownlink carrier component group (or the carrier component), and themobile station apparatus transmit, to the base station apparatus, theuplink data and/or the control data using the corresponding uplinkcarrier component, which makes it possible to efficiently performdownlink/uplink communication without increasing the control information(control signal) from the base station apparatus to the mobile stationapparatus.

In the present embodiment, the following form can also be employed. Themobile communication system of the present embodiment is a mobilecommunication system including the base station apparatus and the mobilestation apparatus, wherein each of multiple uplink carrier componentshaving part of the bandwidth of a frequency band available for themobile station apparatus corresponds to each of multiple downlinkcarrier components or multiple downlink carrier component groupsincluding multiple downlink carrier components having part of thebandwidth of a frequency band available for the base station apparatus,and thus the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatuscommunicate with each other.

As described above, each of multiple uplink carrier components havingpart of the bandwidth of a frequency band available for the mobilestation apparatus corresponds to each of multiple downlink carriercomponents or multiple downlink carrier component groups includingmultiple downlink carrier components having part of the bandwidth of afrequency band available for the base station apparatus, and thus thebase station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate witheach other, which makes it possible to achieve efficient informationcommunication without increasing the control information (controlsignal) notified by the base station apparatus to the mobile stationapparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate with eachother using any one of pairs of the downlink carrier components and theuplink carrier components corresponding to each other.

Since, as described above, the base station apparatus and the mobilestation apparatus communicate with each other using any one of pairs ofthe downlink carrier components and the uplink carrier componentscorresponding to each other, it is possible to achieve efficientinformation communication without increasing the control informationnotified by the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the basestation apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, the uplinktransmission permission signal on each of multiple downlink carriercomponents, and the mobile station apparatus transmits, to the basestation apparatus, uplink information according to the uplinktransmission permission signal on each of the uplink carrier componentscorresponding to the multiple downlink carrier components.

Since, as described above, the base station apparatus transmits, to themobile station apparatus, the uplink transmission permission signal oneach of the multiple downlink carrier components, and the mobile stationapparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, the uplinkinformation according to the uplink transmission permission signal oneach of the uplink carrier components corresponding to the multipledownlink carrier components, it is possible to achieve efficientinformation communication without increasing the control informationnotified by the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the basestation apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, the uplinktransmission permission signal on each of multiple downlink carriercomponent groups including multiple downlink carrier components, and themobile station apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus,uplink information according to the uplink transmission permissionsignal on each of the uplink carrier components corresponding to themultiple downlink carrier component groups.

Since, as described above, the base station apparatus transmits, to themobile station apparatus, the uplink transmission permission signal oneach of the multiple downlink carrier component groups including themultiple downlink carrier components, and the mobile station apparatustransmits, to the base station apparatus, the uplink informationaccording to the uplink transmission permission signal on each of theuplink carrier components corresponding to the multiple downlink carriercomponent groups, it is possible to achieve efficient informationcommunication without increasing the control information notified by thebase station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the basestation apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, a radioresource control signal on any one of multiple downlink carriercomponents, and allocates the resources of a physical uplink controlchannel for transmitting, by the mobile station apparatus, uplinkinformation on multiple uplink carrier components.

Since, as described above, the base station apparatus transmits, to themobile station apparatus, the radio resource control signal on anyone ofmultiple downlink carrier components, and allocates the resources of thephysical uplink control channel for transmitting, by the mobile stationapparatus, uplink information on multiple uplink carrier components, itis possible to achieve efficient information communication withoutincreasing the control information notified by the base stationapparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the mobilestation apparatus transmits, using a physical uplink control channel onmultiple uplink carrier components, uplink information according to aradio resource control signal transmitted from the base stationapparatus on any one of multiple downlink carrier components.

Since, as described above, the mobile station apparatus transmits, usingthe physical uplink control channel on multiple uplink carriercomponents, the uplink information according to the radio resourcecontrol signal transmitted from the base station apparatus on any one ofmultiple downlink carrier components, it is possible to achieveefficient information communication without increasing the controlinformation notified by the base station apparatus to the mobile stationapparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the basestation apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, a radioresource control signal on any one of multiple downlink carriercomponent groups including multiple downlink carrier components, andallocates the resource of a physical uplink control channel fortransmitting, by the mobile station apparatus, uplink information onmultiple uplink carrier components.

Since, as described above, the base station apparatus transmits, to themobile station apparatus, the radio resource control signal on any oneof multiple downlink carrier component groups including multipledownlink carrier components, and allocates the resource of a physicaluplink control channel for transmitting, by the mobile stationapparatus, uplink information on multiple uplink carrier components, itis possible to achieve efficient information communication withoutincreasing the control information notified by the base stationapparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the mobilestation apparatus transmits, using a physical uplink control channel onmultiple uplink carrier components, uplink information according to aradio resource control signal transmitted on anyone of multiple downlinkcarrier component groups including multiple downlink carrier componentsfrom the base station apparatus.

Since, as described above, the mobile station apparatus transmits, usingthe physical uplink control channel on multiple uplink carriercomponents, uplink information according to a radio resource controlsignal transmitted on any one of multiple downlink carrier componentgroups including multiple downlink carrier components from the basestation apparatus, it is possible to achieve efficient informationcommunication without increasing the control information notified by thebase station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the radioresource control signal includes uplink carrier component indicationinformation for indicating any one of uplink carrier components used bythe mobile station apparatus to transmit uplink information amongmultiple uplink carrier components.

Since, as described above, the radio resource control signal includesuplink carrier component indication information for indicating any oneof uplink carrier components used by the mobile station apparatus totransmit uplink information among multiple uplink carrier components,the base station apparatus can give an instruction as to which of thecarrier components is used to the mobile station apparatus by the radioresource control signal.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the mobilestation apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, uplinkinformation using a physical uplink shared channel.

Since, as described above, the mobile station apparatus transmits, tothe base station apparatus, uplink information using a physical uplinkshared channel, it is possible to achieve efficient informationcommunication without increasing the control information notified by thebase station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the mobilestation apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, uplinkinformation using a physical uplink control channel.

Since, as described above, the mobile station apparatus transmits, tothe base station apparatus, uplink information using a physical uplinkcontrol channel, it is possible to achieve efficient informationcommunication without increasing the control information notified by thebase station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the basestation apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, downlinkinformation using a physical downlink shared channel.

Since, as described above, the base station apparatus transmits, to themobile station apparatus, downlink information using a physical downlinkshared channel, it is possible to achieve efficient informationcommunication without increasing the control information notified by thebase station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the basestation apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, downlinkinformation using a physical downlink control channel.

Since, as described above, the base station apparatus transmits, to themobile station apparatus, downlink information using a physical downlinkcontrol channel, it is possible to achieve efficient informationcommunication without increasing the control information notified by thebase station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the mobilestation apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, uplinkinformation using the physical uplink shared channel in case that thetransmission of a physical uplink shared channel and the transmission ofa physical uplink control channel are occurred in the same subframe ofthe uplink carrier component.

Since, as described above, the mobile station apparatus transmits, tothe base station apparatus, uplink information using the physical uplinkshared channel in case that the transmission of a physical uplink sharedchannel and the transmission of a physical uplink control channel areoccurred in the same subframe of the uplink carrier component, it ispossible to achieve efficient information communication withoutincreasing the control information notified by the base stationapparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the mobilestation apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, channelstate information with respect to a downlink system band consists ofmultiple carrier components and/or multiple carrier component groupsusing at least one of uplink carrier components.

Since, as described above, the mobile station apparatus transmits, tothe base station apparatus, channel state information with respect to adownlink system band consists of multiple carrier components and/ormultiple carrier component groups using at least one of uplink carriercomponents, it is possible to achieve efficient informationcommunication without increasing the control information notified by thebase station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

In the mobile communication system of the present embodiment, the mobilestation apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, schedulingrequest information with respect to an uplink system band consists ofmultiple carrier components using at least one of uplink carriercomponents.

Since, as described above, the mobile station apparatus transmits, tothe base station apparatus, scheduling request information with respectto an uplink system band consists of multiple carrier components usingat least one of uplink carrier components, it is possible to achieveefficient information communication without increasing the controlinformation notified by the base station apparatus to the mobile stationapparatus.

The communication method of the present embodiment is a communicationmethod of a mobile communication system including the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus, wherein each of multipleuplink carrier components having part of the bandwidth of a frequencyband available for the mobile station apparatus corresponds to each ofmultiple downlink carrier components or multiple downlink carriercomponent groups including multiple downlink carrier components havingpart of the bandwidth of a frequency band available for the base stationapparatus, and thus the base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus communicate with each other.

Since, as described above, each of multiple uplink carrier componentshaving part of the bandwidth of a frequency band available for themobile station apparatus corresponds to each of multiple downlinkcarrier components or multiple downlink carrier component groupsincluding multiple downlink carrier components having part of thebandwidth of a frequency band available for the base station apparatus,and thus the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatuscommunicate with each other, it is possible to achieve efficientinformation communication without increasing the control information(control signal) notified by the base station apparatus to the mobilestation apparatus.

In the embodiments described above, programs for achieving each functionin the base station apparatus and each function in the mobile stationapparatus are recorded on a computer-readable recording medium and theprograms recorded thereon are read and executed by a computer system,and thus the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus maybe controlled. Here, the “computer system” includes an OS and hardwaresuch as a peripheral device.

The “computer-readable recording medium” refers to a portable mediumsuch as a flexible disk, a magneto-optical disk, a ROM or a CD-ROM and astorage device such as a hard disk incorporated in a computer system.Furthermore, the “computer-readable recording medium” includes: aproduct that dynamically retains a program for a short period of timesuch as a communication line used when a program is transmitted througha communication line such as a network, for example, the Internet, or atelephone line; and a product that retains, in the above case, a programfor a given period of time such as a volatile memory within a computersystem serving as a server or a client. The above program may serve toachieve part of the functions described above; furthermore, the abovefunctions may be achieved by a combination with a program that hasalready been recorded in a computer system.

Although the embodiments of the present invention are described withreference to the drawings, specific configurations are not limited tothese embodiments, and designs and the like are included in the scope ofclaims without departing from the gist of the present invention.

1. A base station apparatus which communicates with a mobile stationapparatus using a plurality of downlink component carriers, the basestation apparatus comprising: transmitting circuitry configured toand/or programmed to transmit, to the mobile station apparatus, a radioresource control signal including first information used for indicatingan uplink component carrier, the uplink component carrier being used forreceiving channel state information on a physical uplink controlchannel, the transmitting circuitry configured to and/or programmed totransmit, to the mobile station apparatus, second information on aphysical downlink control channel in a first downlink component carrier,the second information being used for scheduling of a physical uplinkshared channel in the uplink component carrier, and the first downlinkcomponent carrier being one of the plurality of downlink componentcarriers and corresponding to the uplink component carrier; andreceiving circuitry configured to and/or programmed to receive, from themobile station apparatus, the channel state information on the physicaluplink control channel in the first uplink component carrier, thechannel state information being for a second downlink component carrier,the second downlink component carrier being one of the plurality ofdownlink component carriers, and the receiving circuitry configured toand/or programmed to receive, from the mobile station apparatus, uplinkdata and the channel state information on the physical uplink sharedchannel in the uplink component carrier in a case that the physicaluplink shared channel in the uplink component carrier is scheduled byusing the second information, wherein the transmitting circuitry isconfigured to and/or programmed to transmit, to the mobile stationapparatus, a positive acknowledgment or a negative acknowledgment forthe reception on the physical uplink shared channel, the positiveacknowledgment or the negative acknowledgment being transmitted on aphysical hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) indicator channel in asame downlink component carrier as the first downlink component carrierin which the second information is transmitted.
 2. The base stationapparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second information is usedfor scheduling of the physical uplink shared channel in the uplinkcomponent carrier which is one of a plurality of uplink componentcarriers.
 3. A mobile station apparatus which communicates with a basestation apparatus using a plurality of downlink component carriers, themobile station apparatus comprising: receiving circuitry configured toand/or programmed to receive, from the base station apparatus, a radioresource control signal including first information used for indicatingan uplink component carrier, the uplink component carrier being used fortransmitting channel state information on a physical uplink controlchannel, the receiving circuitry configured to and/or programmed toreceive, from the base station apparatus, second information on aphysical downlink control channel in a first downlink component carrier,the second information being used for scheduling of a physical uplinkshared channel in the uplink component carrier, the first downlinkcomponent carrier being one of the plurality of downlink componentcarriers and corresponding to the uplink component carrier; andtransmitting circuitry configured to and/or programmed to transmit, tothe base station apparatus, the channel state information on thephysical uplink control channel in the first uplink component carrier,the channel state information being for a second downlink componentcarrier, the second downlink component carrier being one of theplurality of downlink component carriers, the transmitting circuitryconfigured to and/or programmed to transmit, to the base stationapparatus, uplink data and the channel state information on the physicaluplink shared channel in the uplink component carrier in a case that thephysical uplink shared channel in the uplink component carrier isscheduled by using the second information, wherein the receivingcircuitry is configured to and/or programmed to receive, from the basestation apparatus, a positive acknowledgment or a negativeacknowledgment for the transmission on the physical uplink sharedchannel, the positive acknowledgment or the negative acknowledgmentbeing received on a physical hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ)indicator channel in a same downlink component carrier as the firstdownlink component carrier in which the second information is received.4. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the secondinformation is used for scheduling of the physical uplink shared channelin the uplink component carrier which is one of a plurality of uplinkcomponent carriers.
 5. A communication method of a base stationapparatus which communicates with a mobile station apparatus using aplurality of downlink component carriers, the communication methodcomprising: transmitting, to the mobile station apparatus, a radioresource control signal including first information used for indicatingan uplink component carrier, the uplink component carrier being used forreceiving channel state information on a physical uplink controlchannel; transmitting, to the mobile station apparatus, secondinformation on a physical downlink control channel in a first downlinkcomponent carrier, the second information being used for scheduling of aphysical uplink shared channel in the uplink component carrier, and thefirst downlink component carrier being one of the plurality of downlinkcomponent carriers and corresponding to the uplink component carrier;receiving, from the mobile station apparatus, the channel stateinformation on the physical uplink control channel in the first uplinkcomponent carrier, the channel state information being for a seconddownlink component carrier, and the second downlink component carrierbeing one of the plurality of downlink component carriers; receiving,from the mobile station apparatus, uplink data and the channel stateinformation on the physical uplink shared channel in the uplinkcomponent carrier in a case that the physical uplink shared channel inthe uplink component carrier is scheduled by using the secondinformation; and transmitting, to the mobile station apparatus, apositive acknowledgment or a negative acknowledgment for the receptionon the physical uplink shared channel, the positive acknowledgment orthe negative acknowledgment being transmitted on a physical hybridautomatic repeat request (ARQ) indicator channel in a same downlinkcomponent carrier as the first downlink component carrier in which thesecond information is transmitted.
 6. The communication method accordingto claim 5, wherein the second information is used for scheduling of thephysical uplink shared channel in the uplink component carrier which isone of a plurality of uplink component carriers.
 7. A communicationmethod of a mobile station apparatus which communicates with a basestation apparatus using a plurality of downlink component carriers, thecommunication method comprising: receiving, from the base stationapparatus, a radio resource control signal including first informationused for indicating an uplink component carrier, the uplink componentcarrier being used for transmitting channel state information on aphysical uplink control channel; receiving, from the base stationapparatus, second information on a physical downlink control channel ina first downlink component carrier, the second information being usedfor scheduling of a physical uplink shared channel in the uplinkcomponent carrier, and the first downlink component carrier being one ofthe plurality of downlink component carriers and corresponding to theuplink component carrier; transmitting, to the base station apparatus,the channel state information on the physical uplink control channel inthe first uplink component carrier, the channel state information beingfor a second downlink component carrier, and the second downlinkcomponent carrier being one of the plurality of downlink componentcarriers; transmitting, to the base station apparatus, uplink data andthe channel state information on the physical uplink shared channel inthe uplink component carrier in a case that the physical uplink sharedchannel in the uplink component carrier is scheduled by using the secondinformation; and receiving, from the base station apparatus, a positiveacknowledgment or a negative acknowledgment for the transmission on thephysical uplink shared channel, the positive acknowledgment or thenegative acknowledgment being received on a physical hybrid ARQ(automatic repeat request) indicator channel in a same downlinkcomponent carrier as the first downlink component carrier in which thesecond information is received.
 8. The communication method according toclaim 7, wherein the second information is used for scheduling of thephysical uplink shared channel in the uplink component carrier which isone of a plurality of uplink component carriers.